Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous [there is] favour.
Ver. 9. Fools make a mock of sin.] A sport or pastime of it. Pro 10:23 See Trapp on " Pro 10:23 " They dance with the devil all day, and yet think to sup with Christ. But what saith the heathen historian? Nae, illi falsi sunt qui diversissimas res expectant, ignaviae vohtptatem, et praemia virtutis. In good truth they are utterly out that take their swing in sin, and yet look for the reward of virtue. No, their sweet meat must have sour sauce. "God also will laugh at their destruction, and mock when their fear cometh." Pro 1:26-27 And then "they all shall be damned that had pleasure in unrighteousness," 2Th 2:12 yea, double damned, because they jeered when they should have feared. 2Pe 2:13
But among the righteous there is favour.] That, though they sin of infirmity, yet forasmuch as they are sensible and sorrowful for their failings, and see them to confession, God will never see them to their confusion. Homo agnoscit, Deus ignoscit; man repenteth, and God remitteth; yea, he "compasseth his returning people with favour as with a shield," Psa 5:12 he re-accepts them with all sweetness through Christ, "who is the propitiation for their sins." 1Jn 2:2