Proverbs 28:10 (BSB)

He who leads the upright along the path of evil will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.

From Proverbs 28. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 28:10

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 28:10: Here is, 1. The doom of seducers, who attempt to draw good people, or those who profess to be such, into sin and mischief, who take pride in causing the righteous to go astray in an evil way, in drawing them into a snare, that they may insult over them. They shall not gain their point; it is impossible to deceive the elect.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 28:10: Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way,.... That is, who attempts to deceive them, and draw them into errors or immoralities, and so into a snare, into mischief and ruin; first into the evil of sin, in order to bring them into the evil of punishment; I say, who attempts to do it; for it is not possible that God's elect...
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 28:10: Pro 28:10 A tristich beginning with a participle: He who misleads the upright into an evil way, He shall fall into his own pit; But the innocent shall inherit that which is good. In the first case, Pro 26:27 is fulfilled: the deceiver who leads astray falls himself into the destruction which he prepared for others, whether he misleads them into sin, and thus mediately...