Proverbs 16:29 (BSB)

A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path that is not good.

From Proverbs 16. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 16:29

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 16:29-30: Here is another sort of evil men described to us, that we may neither do like them, nor have any thing to do with them. 1. Such as (like Satan) do all the mischief they can by force and violence, as roaring lions, and not only by fraud and insinuation, as subtle serpents: They are violent men, that do all by rapine and oppression, that...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 16:29: He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things,.... Or "perverse" or "contrary things" (r); he shuts his eyes, that his thoughts might not be disturbed and distracted by visible objects, but might be more free and composed, and intent upon the things he is meditating and devising; or he shuts his eyes against light, against Scripture evidence, which he does not care to come to...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 16:29: violent man--or, "man of mischief" (Pro 3:31). enticeth-- (Pro 1:10).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 16:29: Pro 16:29 29 A man of violence enticeth his neighbour, And leadeth him in a way which is not good. Cf. Gen 4:8. The subject is not moral enticement, but enticement to some place or situation which facilitates to the violent man the carrying out of his violent purpose (misdemeanour, robbery, extortion, murder).