Proverbs 2:8 (BSB)

to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.

From Proverbs 2. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 2:8

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 2:1-9: Job had asked, long before this, Where shall wisdom be found? Whence cometh wisdom? (Job 28:12, Job 28:20) and he had given this general answer (v. 23), God knoweth the place of it; but Solomon here goes further, and tells us both where we may find it and how we may get it. We are here told, I. What means we must use that we may obtain wisdom. 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 2:8: He keepeth the paths of judgment,.... That is, the Lord keeps them; he does that which is just and right himself, in the course of his providence, and in the methods of his grace; and as he guides the feet of his people in the ways of righteousness and holiness, he keeps them there from turning out of them.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 2:8: keepeth . . . way--God defends the right way, and those in it. saints--objects of favor (compare Psa 4:3, &c.). He guides and guards them.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 2:3-8: Pro 2:3-8 Instead of כּי אם there is an old אל תקרי (read not so, but thus), כי אם (if thou callest understanding mother), which supposes the phrase כי אם (lxx) as traditional. If אם were intended (according to which the Targ. in the Bibl. rabbinica, but not in Norzi’s text, translates), then 3b would correspond; vid., Pro 7:4, cf. Job 17:14.