Proverbs 2:12 (BSB)

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,

From Proverbs 2. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 2:12

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 2:10-22: The scope of these verses is to show, 1. What great advantage true wisdom will be of to us; it will keep us from the paths of sin, which lead to ruin, and will therein do us a greater kindness than if it enriched us with all the wealth of the world. 2.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 2:12: To deliver thee from the way of the evil man,.... Who is so by nature and practice, who is hardened in sin and abandoned to it, whose course of life is evil, and who endeavours to draw others into the same evil practices; now the Gospel, and a spiritual knowledge of it, are a means of preserving men from following the examples of such persons...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 2:12: To deliver--as from great danger (Pro 6:5). way . . . man-- (Psa 1:1). froward things--perversity (Pro 6:14; Pro 23:23), what is opposed to truth.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 2:12-15: Pro 2:12-15 As in Pro 2:10, Pro 2:11, the אז תּבּין (“then shalt thou understand,” Pro 2:5) is expanded, so now the watching, preserving, is separately placed in view: 12 To deliver thee from an evil way, From the man who speaks falsehood; 13 (From those) who forsake the ways of honesty To walk in ways of darkness, 14 Who rejoice to accomplish evil, Delight...