Proverbs 16:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

The highway of the upright, their common road, in which they constantly purpose, and desire, and customarily use to walk, although sometimes through frailty or temptation they slip into the by-paths of sin, is to depart from evil; from the evil of sin, and consequently from the evil of punishment. He that keepeth his way, that takes heed to walk in that highway, preserveth his soul from that mischief which befalls those that walk in the crooked paths of wickedness.

Proverbs 16:17

17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.