Proverbs 10:29 (BSB)
The way of the LORD is a refuge to the upright, but destruction awaits those who do evil.
From Proverbs 10. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 10:29
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 10:29-30: These two verses are to the same purport with those next before, intimating the happiness of the godly and the misery of the wicked; it is necessary that this be inculcated upon us, so loth are we to believe and consider it. 1.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 10:29: The way of the Lord is strength to the upright,.... Who are upright in heart and life; who have the uprightness or righteousness of Christ imputed to them, and right spirits renewed in them; in consequence of which they walk uprightly, Pro 10:9.
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 10:29: The way, &c.--that is, God's providence sustains the righteous and overthrows the wicked (Hos 14:9).
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 10:29: Pro 10:29 29 Jahve’s way is a bulwark to the righteous; But ruin to those that do evil. Of the two meanings which מעז (מעוז) has: a stronghold from עזז, and asylum (= Arab. m'adz) from עוּז, the contrast here demands the former. 'דּרך ה and 'יראת ה, understood objectively, are the two O.T. names of true religion.