Proverbs 14:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; but the end thereof (are) the ways of death. Good intentions are not a justification for wrongdoing (2 Samuel 6:6). We must search our ways of life, our opinions, and practices, by the test of the Word of God. Judges 17:6, etc., gives an awful illustration of the end of "every man doing that which is right in his own eyes." Compare the prohibition of this, Deuteronomy 12:8.

Proverbs 14:12

12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.