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.