Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good [things] in possession.
Ver. 10. Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray, &c.] This follows fitly upon the former. Seducers and sectaries dissuade men from hearing the law in public assemblies, and carry them into by corners under a pretence of prayer; like moles, they do all their mischief by working underground, as Epiphanius observeth, they shall therefore perish in their own pit. "If the blind lead the blind," &c. See Trapp on " Pro 26:27 "
But the upright shall have good things in possession.] They shall not be so "led away with the error of the wicked as to fall from their own steadfastness," 2Pe 3:17 or to forfeit their hereditary right to the kingdom, because "both the deceived and the deceiver are with the Lord," Job 12:13 ; Job 12:16 and it is impossible for the elect to be fundamentally and finally seduced, Mat 24:24 since they are "kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation." 1Pe 1:5 Heaven is kept for them and they for heaven; how then should they miss it?