delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,
The scope of these verses is to show, 1. What great advantage true wisdom will be of to us; it will keep us from the paths of sin, which lead to ruin, and will therein do us a greater kindness than if it enriched us with all the wealth of the world. 2.
Commenting on Proverbs 2:10-22
To deliver thee from the way of the evil man,.... Who is so by nature and practice, who is hardened in sin and abandoned to it, whose course of life is evil, and who endeavours to draw others into the same evil practices; now the Gospel, and a spiritual knowledge of it, are a means of preserving men from following the examples of such persons...
To deliver--as from great danger (Pro 6:5). way . . . man-- (Psa 1:1). froward things--perversity (Pro 6:14; Pro 23:23), what is opposed to truth.