Proverbs 7:25 (BSB)

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.

From Proverbs 7. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 7:25

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 7:24-27: We have here the application of the foregoing story: "Hearken to me therefore, and not to such seducers (Pro 7:24); give ear to a father, and not to an enemy." 1. "Take good counsel when it is given you. Let not thy heart decline to her ways (Pro 7:25); never leave the paths of virtue, though strait and narrow, solitary and up-hill, for the way...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 7:25: For she hath cast down many wounded,.... Wounded in their name, character, and reputation; in their bodies by diseases; and in their souls by guilt, shame, and horror, through a compliance with her sinful lusts: these she "cast down" from the honours they were possessed of, from the health they enjoyed, and from the peace and tranquillity of mind they formerly felt within them.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 7:24-25: Pro 7:24-25 With ועתּה, as at Pro 5:7, the author now brings his narrative to a close, adding the exhortation deduced from it: 24 And now, ye children, give ear unto me, And observe the words of my mouth! 25 Let not thine heart incline to her ways, And stray not in her paths.