Proverbs 29:6 (BSB)

An evil man is caught by his own sin, but a righteous one sings and rejoices.

From Proverbs 29. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 29:6

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 29:6: Here is, 1. The peril of a sinful way. There is not only a punishment at the end of it, but a snare in it. One sin is a temptation to another, and there are troubles which, as a snare, come suddenly upon evil men in the midst of their transgressions; nay, their transgression itself often involves them in vexations; their sin is their punishment...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 29:6: In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare,.... Or, according to the accents in some copies, "in the transgression of a man is an evil snare", as Aben Ezra observes the words may be read; there is a snare in sin to man himself; one sin leads on to another, and a man is snared by the works of his own hands...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 29:6: In--or, "By" the transgression--he is brought into difficulty (Pro 12:13), but the righteous go on prospering, and so sing or rejoice.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 29:6: In the transgression of an evil man [there is] a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice. (b) He is always ready to fall into the snare that he lays for others.