Proverbs 8:36 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

But he that sinneth against me By the neglect or contempt of, or rebellion against my commands; wrongeth his own soul Doth the greatest injury to his own soul: he even destroys it, and is guilty of the worst kind of murder, of soul-murder. All they that hate me That reject and disobey my counsels, living in the commission of known sin, which, in God's account, is hating him, as is here and elsewhere implied; love death Not directly and intentionally, but by consequence, because they love those practices which they know will bring certain destruction upon them.