Proverbs 2:15 (BSB)

whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.

From Proverbs 2. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 2:15

• 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 2:15: Whose ways are crooked,.... Which swerve from and are not agreeably to the rule of the divine word, either the law of God or the Gospel of Christ; sin is an aberration, a straying from the rule of God's word, a transgression of his law; and a walk in it is unbecoming the Gospel of Christ; it has many serpentine windings and turnings in it...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 2:15: crooked--tortuous, unprincipled. froward--literally, (they) are going back, not only aside from right, but opposite to it.
• 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...