Proverbs 12:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief. There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief. "No evil" (literally, iniquity; Hebrew, aven) whether of guilt or of its punishment, 'shall happen,' so as lastingly to hurt "the just" (Psalms 91:10). "But the wicked shall be filled (cf. Proverbs 1:31) with" the 'iniquity' and the punishment of their own "mischief." One clause is to be supplied from the other.