Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
Ver. 13. To walk in the ways of darkness.] As thieves, drunkards, dicers, and our other solifugae, that abuse even gospel light; that put not light under a bushel, but under a dunghill; that, when they have walked themselves weary in these byways, highways to hell, sit down "in darkness, and in the shadow of death," Luk 1:79 which posture imports, (1). Continuance there; (2). Content, as well paid of their seat. These "hate the light because their ways are evil." Joh 3:20 The light stands in the light of their wicked ways, as the angel did in Balaam's way to his sin.