Sprueche 18:3

3 Wo der Gottlose hin kommt, da kommt Verachtung und Schmach mit Hohn.

Sprueche 18:3 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 18:3

When the wicked cometh, [then] cometh also contempt
When he comes into the world, as Aben Ezra; as soon as he is born, he is liable to contempt, being born in sin; but this is true of all: rather, as the Vulgate Latin, and with which the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions agree, when he cometh into the depth of sin, or to the height of his wickedness; he commences a scoffer at, and condemner of all that is good: when he comes into the house of God, it may be said, "there comes contempt"; for he comes not to hear the word, in order to receive any profit by it, but to contemn it, and the ministers of it; and with ignominy reproach:
or, "with the ignominious man reproach" {l}: he that despises all that is good, and treats divine things in a ludicrous way, will not spare to reproach the best of men, and speak evil of them falsely, for the sake of religion. Or the meaning of the whole is, that wicked men, sooner or later, come into contempt, ignominy, and reproach, themselves; they that despise the Lord are lightly esteemed by him; and a vile person is contemned in the eyes of a good man: such bring shame and disgrace upon themselves and families while they live; and, when they die, they are laid in the grave with dishonour; an infamy rests upon their memories, and they wilt rise to everlasting shame and contempt.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 (hprx Nwlq Me) "viro ignominioso, venit opprobriunu", Pagninus; "cum ignominioso probrum", Junis & Tremeilius; "cum probroso opprobrium", Schultens, so Vatablus, Mercerus, Gejerus.

Sprueche 18:3 In-Context

1 Wer sich absondert, der sucht, was ihn gelüstet, und setzt sich wider alles, was gut ist.

2 Ein Narr hat nicht Lust am Verstand, sondern kundzutun, was in seinem Herzen steckt.

3 Wo der Gottlose hin kommt, da kommt Verachtung und Schmach mit Hohn.

4 Die Worte in eines Mannes Munde sind wie tiefe Wasser, und die Quelle der Weisheit ist ein voller Strom.

5 Es ist nicht gut, die Person des Gottlosen achten, zu beugen den Gerechten im Gericht.