Proverbs 3:35 (BSB)

The wise will inherit honor, but fools are held up to shame.

From Proverbs 3. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 3:35

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 3:27-35: True wisdom consists in the due discharge of our duty towards man, as well as towards God, in honesty as well as piety, and therefore we have here divers excellent precepts of wisdom which relate to our neighbour. I. We must render to all their due, both in justice and charity, and not delay to do it (Pro 3:27, Pro 3:28): "Withhold not good from...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 3:35: The wise shall inherit glory,.... The wise are the same with the just and lowly before mentioned, to whom God gives grace, and to these he gives glory. The "wise" are such who are so, not in a natural, civil, or notional sense, or that are wise in the things of nature, in civil affairs and in speculative matters of religion; but in a spiritual...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 3:35: inherit--as a portion. shame--or disgrace, as opposed to honor. promotion--(Compare Margin); as honor for well-doing makes men conspicuous, so fools are signalized by disgrace. Next: Proverbs Chapter 4
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 3:35: Pro 3:35 This group of the proverbs of wisdom now suitably closes with the fundamental contrast between the wise and fools: The wise shall inherit honour, But fools carry away shame. If we take וּכסילים as the object, then we can scarcely interpret the clause: shame sweeps fools away (Umbreit, Zöckler, Bertheau), for הרים [Hiph.