Proverbs 13:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He that walketh with wise men That is, who keeps company, and commonly converses with them; shall be wise Shall learn wisdom and goodness, both from their counsels and examples; but a companion of fools But he who associates himself with the wicked; shall be destroyed Shall be as certainly ruined as he will be unavoidably infected with their wickedness. Evil pursueth sinners The evil of punishment, in proportion to their evil of sin, shall certainly, sooner or later, overtake them, although they may please themselves with hopes of impunity; but to the righteous good shall be repaid The good which men, truly righteous, do, will infallibly return into their own bosoms, and reward them with many blessings.