Proverbs 19:29 Commentary and Bible Study

This is clearly linked to the previous proverb. Although the wicked scorn judgment and try to put themselves out of its reach, taking steps to insulate themselves from it, nevertheless God’s judgment will seek them out and find them. It cannot be frustrated, nor can the Lord’s providence be resisted. Scripture contains many examples of God’s providence at work and bringing about his will in the case of those who try to cooperate with it as well as in those who try to resist it. Those who work against it are unable to prevent it, and God’s judgments are part of that providence. The scorner presumably believes his own scorning and therefore thinks that judgment can be evaded. He scorns not only the standards of judgment, but also the fact of judgment. He believes that there are no serious consequences to sin, and therefore he need not submit to correction. He takes steps to hide what he does, often in a web of deception, and believes that he has long since removed himself from the Lord’s retribution. How could God ever follow the convoluted cover up which he has manufactured for himself?But judgments are prepared for the scorner. They will be all the more terrible when they catch up with him through a fog of lies, and track him down in the secret place. He will realise with horror, that no act of cover up was ever once successful, that he has only succeeded in exposing the crookedness of his heart in his vain attempts to hide from God. Stripes are prepared, and those stripes will be laid upon him. Why was he so foolish as not to submit to correction when it could have done him some good, when there was a possibility that he could be reformed, when God was willing to show mercy? Now it is too late because God’s patience with him as been exhausted.