Proverbs 12:28 (BSB)

There is life in the path of righteousness, but another path leads to death.

From Proverbs 12. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 12:28

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 12:28: The way of religion is here recommended to us, 1. As a straight, plain, easy way; it is the way of righteousness. God's commands (the rule we are to walk by) are all holy, just, and good. Religion has right reason and equity on its side; it is a path-way, a way which God has cast up for us (Isa 35:8); it is a highway...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 12:28: In the way of righteousness is life,.... The life of the soul, or spiritual life, as Aben Ezra; and eternal life, as Gersom. One that is in the true way of righteousness is one that is instilled by the righteousness of Christ, which justification is the justification of life: such an one is made alive, and reckons himself alive in a law sense; and enjoys...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 12:28: (Compare Pro 8:8, Pro 8:20, &c.). A sentiment often stated; here first affirmatively, then negatively. Next: Proverbs Chapter 13
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 12:28: Pro 12:28 28 In the path of righteousness is life, And the way of its path is immortality. All the old versions to the Venet. give אל־ instead of אל־, and are therefore under the necessity of extracting from ודּרך נתיבה a meaning corresponding to this, εἰς θάνατον, in which they are followed by Hitzig: “a devious way leadeth to death.” But נתיב (נתיבה) signifies...