John Trapp on Proverbs 21:24

Verſ. 24. Proud and haughty ſcorner is his name] An ill name hee gets him, and lyes under the common reproach of a proud peeviſh perſon. Hee ſeeks renown by his rage and revenge, as Lamech that vaunted of his valour this way to his wives; Alexander Pheraeus, who conſecrated the javelin wherewith hee had ſlain Polyphron; Caelius the Lawyer, that gloried to bee held the moſt froward and frample Roman alive, &c. But God loadeth ſuch a man with diſgrace, as here, and gives him his due character. Men alſo will hate him, and deſpiſe him for a ſon of Belial, as Nabals ſervants ſaid of him; for a mad frantick fellow, being once inraged, cares not what hee ſayes, as Jonas; what hee doth, as Saul, who dealing in proud wrath, was ſo kindled by the Devil, that hee could not bee quenched till hee fell into the unquenchable lake: Beſides the infamy that will never bee waſhed off, the brand of reproach, like that of Dathan and Abiram, who roſe up in proud wrath againſt Moſes and Aaron, and are therefore worthily ſtigmatized with a This is that Dathan, Numb. 26.9. like that other, This is that King Ahaz, 2 Chron. 28.22. and as wee commonly ſay of ſuch an one, that hee is a proud fool.