Proverbs 2:19 (BSB)

None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.

From Proverbs 2. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 2:19

  • 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 2:19: None that go unto her return again,.... That is, those that commit whoredom with her return not again by repentance, and to a sober and chaste way of living, at least but very few; hence some of the ancients thought adultery was the unpardonable sin; but it is certain that some have been recovered by the power of divine grace, and have been brought to...
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 2:19: that is, such as remain impenitent (compare Ecc 7:26). paths of life-- (Psa 16:11), opposed to paths unto the dead.
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 2:17-19: Pro 2:17-19 7 Who forsakes the companion of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God; 18 For she sinks down to death together with her house, And to the shadow of Hades her paths - 19 All they who go to her return not again, And reach not the paths of life אלּוּף, as here used, has nothing to do with the phylarch-name...