Proverbs 24:22 (BSB)

For they will bring sudden destruction. Who knows what ruin they can bring?

From Proverbs 24. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 24:22

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 24:21-22: Note, 1. Religion and loyalty must go together. As men, it is our duty to honour our Creator, to worship and reverence him, and to be always in his fear; as members of a community, incorporated for mutual benefit, it is our duty to be faithful and dutiful to the government God has set over us, Rom 13:1, Rom 13:2.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 24:22: These things also belong to the wise,.... Both what is said before concerning fearing God and the king; these belong to the wise and unwise, rich and poor, great and small; particularly judges and civil magistrates, and all subordinate governors, who have, or ought to have, a competency of wisdom; these ought to fear God and the king, as well as private subjects; and also...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 24:22: their calamity, &c.--either what God and the king inflict, or what changers and their company suffer; better the first.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 24:22: For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both? (g) Meaning, either of the wicked and seditious, as in or of them who do not fear God or obey their king.