Proverbs 4:27 (BSB)

Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your feet away from evil.

From Proverbs 4. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 4:27

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 4:20-27: Solomon, having warned us not to do evil, here teaches us how to do well. It is not enough for us to shun the occasions of sin, but we must study the methods of duty. I. We must have a continual regard to the word of God and endeavour that it may be always ready to us. 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 4:27: Turn not to the right hand nor to the left,.... Either into the road of immorality and profaneness, or into that of error, superstition, and false worship; but attend to the way of holiness and truth, directed to in the word of God; see Isa 30:21; nor be moved out of it by threatenings and menaces, nor by flatteries and promises; neither be cast down...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 4:27: (Compare Pro 4:25). Avoid all by-paths of evil (Deu 2:27; Deu 17:11). A life of integrity requires attention to heart, speech, eyes, and conduct. Next: Proverbs Chapter 5
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 4:23-27: Pro 4:23-27 After this general preface the exhortation now becomes special: 23 Above all other things that are to be guarded, keep thy heart, For out from it life has its issues. 24 Put away from thee perverseness of mouth, And waywardness of lips put far from thee. 25 Thine eyes should look straight forward, And thine eyelids look straight to the end before thee.