Proverbs 11:3 (BSB)

The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.

From Proverbs 11. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 11:3

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 11:3: It is not only promised that God will guide the upright, and threatened that he will destroy the transgressors, but, that we may be the more fully assured of both, it is here represented as if the nature of the thing were such on both sides that it would do it itself. 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 11:3: The integrity of the upright shall guide them,.... The Spirit of God is the best guide of an upright man; he leads into all truth, and unto the land of uprightness, and continues to be a guide, even unto death; and it is right to walk after him, and not after the flesh: and besides him, the upright man has the word of God as...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 11:3: guide--to lead, as a shepherd (Pro 6:7; Psa 78:52). perverseness--ill-nature. destroy--with violence.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 11:3: Pro 11:3 3 The integrity of the upright guideth them; But the perverseness of the ungodly destroyeth them. To the upright, ישׁרים, who keep the line of rectitude without turning aside therefrom into devious paths (Psa 125:4.), stand opposed (as at Pro 2:21.) the ungodly (faithless), בּגדים, who conceal (from בּגד, to cover, whence בּגד = כּסוּת) malicious thoughts and plans.