When the wicked cometh, [then] cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
Ver. 3. When the wicked cometh, then cometh contempt.] It comes into the world with him, so the Hebrew doctors expound it. He is born a contemner of God, of his people, and of his ordinances, being "vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind," Col 2:18 and having a base esteem of others, in comparison of himself. Thus "vain man would be wise," yea, the only wise, "though man be born like a wild ass's colt," Job 11:12 and so he could not but confess, would he but consult a while with himself. But he doth with himself as some people do by dogs and monkeys, which they know to be paltry carrion beasts, and yet they set great store by them, and make precious account of them, merely for their mind's sake.
And with ignominy, reproach.] These two he shall be sure of, according to that of 1 Samuel 2:30 : - "They that despise me shall be lightly esteemed"; and Proverbs 3:34, "Surely God scorneth the scorners"; See Trapp on " Pro 3:34 " he pays them in their own coin, overshoots them in their own bow, makes them to meet with such as will mete them out their own measure, and for their contempt repay them with ignominy, "reproach."