John Trapp on Proverbs 13:21

Verſ. 21. Evil purſueth ſinners] Hard at heels. Flagitium & flagellum, ut acus & filum. Sin and puniſhment are linked together with chains of adamant. Of ſin wee may ſay as Iſidore doth of the Serpent, Tot dolores, quot colores, ſo many colours, ſo many dolours: The wages of ſin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life, Rom. 6. ult. The ſame in effect with this ſentence of Solomon.

But to the righteous good ſhall bee repaid] Or hee (that is God) ſhall repay good. Now hee is a liberal pay-maſter, and all his retributions are more than bountiful. Never did any yet do, or ſuffer ought for God, that complained of an hard bargain.L. Brooks diſcourſe of Epiſcop. God will recompence your loſſes (ſaith that thrice noble Lord Brook, who loſt his precious life in this late unhappy wars at Litchfield) as the King of Poland did his noble ſervant Zeliſlaus; having loſt his hand in his wars, hee ſent him a golden hand. Caius (Agrippa having ſuffered impriſonment for wiſhing him Emperor) when hee came afterwards to the Empire, the firſt thing hee did was to prefer Agrippa, and gave him a chain of gold, as heavy as the chain of iron that was upon him in Priſon. Thoſe that loſe any thing for God, hee ſeals them a bill of Exchange, of a double return, nay an hundred fold here, and eternal life hereafter.