Proverbs 15:24 (BSB)

The path of life leads upward for the wise, that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

From Proverbs 15. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 15:24

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 15:24: The way of wisdom and holiness is here recommended to us, 1. As very safe and comfortable: It is the way of life, the way that leads to eternal life, in which we shall find the joy and satisfaction which will be the life of the soul, and at the end of which we shall find the perfection of blessedness. Be wise and live.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 15:24: The way of life is above to the wise,.... Of "the way of life"; See Gill on Pro 10:17; this is said to be "above", or it tends "to what is above"; it leads to heaven and happiness above; the life itself it is the way of or to is above, it is hid with Christ in God; eternal life, glory, and happiness, is above...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 15:24: (Compare Col 3:2). Holy purposes prevent sinning, and so its evils.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 15:24: Pro 15:24 Four proverbs of fundamentally different doctrines: 24 The man of understanding goeth upwards on a way of life, To depart from hell beneath. The way of life is one, Pro 5:6; Psa 16:11 (where, notwithstanding the want of the article, the idea is logically determined), although in itself forming a plurality of ארחות, Pro 2:19.