Proverbs 10:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Erreth. — Literally, committeth error. This is probably the true sense, and harmonises better with being “in the way of life,” which occurs just before, than the marginal rendering, “causeth to err.” The word occurs in a similar sense in Jeremiah 42:20 (there translated, “ye have dissembled”).

Proverbs 10:17

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