Proverbs 22:5 (BSB)

Thorns and snares lie on the path of the perverse; he who guards his soul stays far from them.

From Proverbs 22. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 22:5

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 22:5: Note 1. The way of sin is vexatious and dangerous: In the way of the froward, that crooked way, which is contrary to the will and word of God, thorns and snares are found, thorns of grief for past sins and snares entangling them in further sin.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 22:5: Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward,.... Who walks contrary to the will and law of God; such a man meets with troubles, which are as thorns, grieving and distressing to him; and is taken in snares, and brought into difficulties, out of which he is not easily extricated; the thorns of affliction, and the snares of Satan: by the one his...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 22:5: he that . . . them--Those who properly watch over their own souls are thus preserved from the dangers which attend the way of perverse men (Pro 16:17).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 22:5: Pro 22:5 5 Thorns, snares, are on the way of the crooked; He that guardeth his soul, let him keep far from them. Rightly the Venet. ἄκανθαι παγίδες ἐν ὁδῷ στρεβλοῦ. The meaning of צנּים (plur. of צן, or צנּה, the same as צנינים) and פּחים (from פּח, Arab.