Proverbs 16:17 (BSB)

The highway of the upright leads away from evil; he who guards his way protects his life.

From Proverbs 16. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 16:17

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 16:17: Note, 1. It is the way of the upright to avoid sin, and every thing that looks like it and leads towards it; and this is a highway marked out by authority, tracked by many that have gone before us, and in which we meet with many that keep company with us; it is easy to find and safe to be travelled in, like a highway, Isa 35:8.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 16:17: The highway of the upright is to depart from evil,.... Upright persons, such who are upright in heart, and walk uprightly; these walk in the highway of holiness, in which men, though fools, shall not err; in the King's highway, the highway of the King of kings; in the plain beaten path of God's commandments; and so shun the bypaths of sin, and abstain from...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 16:17: The highway--A common, plain road represents the habitual course of the righteous in departing from evil. keepeth--observes.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 16:17: Pro 16:17 17 The path of the righteous is the avoiding of evil, And he preserveth his soul who giveth heed to his way. The meaning of מסלּה, occurring only here in the Proverbs, is to be learned from Pro 15:19.