Proverbs 28:4 (BSB)

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them.

From Proverbs 28. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 28:4

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 28:4: Note, 1. Those that praise the wicked make it to appear that they do themselves forsake the law, and go contrary to it, for that curses and condemns the wicked. Wicked people will speak well of one another, and so strengthen one another's hands in their wicked ways, hoping thereby to silence the clamours of their own consciences and to serve the interests of the...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 28:4: They that forsake the law praise the wicked,.... Who are like them; who forsake and transgress the law, as they do; every like loves its like; wicked men delight in sin, the transgression of the law, and in those that do it.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 28:4: They that forsake . . . wicked--Wrongdoers encourage one another.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 28:4: Pro 28:4 4 They who forsake the law praise the godless; But they who keep the law become angry with them, viz. the godless, for רשׁע is to be thought of collectively, as at Pro 28:1. They who praise the godless turn away from the revealed word of God (Psa 73:11-15); those, on the contrary, who are true to God’s word (Pro 28:18) are aroused...