Proverbs 28:1 (BSB)

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

From Proverbs 28. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 28:1

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 28:1: See here, 1. What continual frights those are subject to that go on in wicked ways. Guilt in the conscience makes men a terror to themselves, so that they are ready to flee when none pursues; like one that absconds for debt, who thinks every one he meets a bailiff.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 28:1: The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. (a) Because their own conscience accuses them.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 28:1: Pro 28:1 1 The godless flee without any one pursuing them; But the righteous are bold like a lion. We would misinterpret the sequence of the accents if we supposed that it denoted רשׁע as obj.; it by no means takes ואין־רדף as a parenthesis. רשׁע belongs thus to נסוּ as collective sing. (cf. e.g., Isa 16:4); in 1b, יבטח, as comprehensive or distributive (individualizing) singular, follows the plur. subject.