Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 3:35

35. The wise shall inherit glory , but shame shall be the promotion of fools .

Shall enjoy it not onely for a season, as wicked men oft-times do, but as an Inheritance constantly and to perpetuity.

In stead of that glory which they greedily seek they shall meet with nothing but ignominy. Or, as it is in the Margent, shame exalteth or lifteth up fools, i. e. it makes them manifest and notorious, as this very word is used, Prov. 14. 29. Or, as the words lie in the Hebrew Text, fools take or carry away (as this word is here rendred by divers both ancient and modern Translators, and as it is used, Levit. 6. 10. 15. and oft elsewhere) shame, to wit, as his proper Portion or Inheritance; which is here very fitly opposed to the Portion or Inheritance of the Just. And although the Verb be singular, yet it agrees well enough with the Noun plural, because this is taken distributively, such constructions being very usual in the Hebrew Text.

Marginal references: Heb. exalteth the fools.