Proverbs 25:22 (BSB)

For in so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you.

From Proverbs 25. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 25:22

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 25:21-22: By this it appears that, however the scribes and Pharisees had corrupted the law, not only the commandment of loving our brethren, but even that of loving our enemies, was not only a new, but also an old commandment, an Old Testament commandment, though our Saviour has given it to us with the new enforcement of his own great example in loving us when we were enemies. Observe, 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 25:22: For thou shall heap coals of fire upon his head,.... Not to increase his punishment and damnation, the more aggravated by kindness shown him; but to bring him by such means to a sense of former injuries, and to shame for them, repentance of them, and love of the person injured, and carefulness for the future of doing him any further wrong; and the Lord...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 25:22: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee. (p) You will, as if by force, overcome him, in so much that his own conscience will move him to acknowledge the benefits, and his heart will be inflamed.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 25:21-22: Pro 25:21-22 21 If thine enemy hunger, feed him with bread; And if he thirst, give him water to drink. 22 For thereby thou heapest burning coals on his head, And Jahve will recompense it to thee. The translation of this proverb by the lxx is without fault; Paul cites therefrom Rom 12:20.