Proverbs 10:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

He is in the way of life The way which leadeth to life and blessedness; that keepeth instruction That observeth the wholesome counsels of God and good men: but he that refuseth reproof erreth Namely, from the way of life, or into the ways of sin, and so of death. Hebrew, מתעה, causeth to err, or seduceth, namely, himself: he knowingly and willingly exposes himself to temptation and wickedness, because he rejects that admonition which is a proper preservative from it.

Proverbs 10:17

17 He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.e