Proverbs 10:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

The way of life; which leadeth to life and blessedness. That keepeth instruction; that observeth and obeyeth the wholesome counsels of God, and of good men. Erreth, to wit, from the way of life, or into the ways of sin, and so of death; Heb. leadeth into error, or seduceth, to wit, himself, as appears by the opposition of this to the former clause; he wittingly and willingly exposeth himself to temptation and wickedness, because he rejecteth 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