Proverbs 2:13

13 those who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in ways of darkness,

Proverbs 2:13 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 2:13

Who leave the paths of uprightness
Or "righteousness", or the "right [and plain] ways" ^F21; which the light of nature and the law of God, and especially the Gospel of Christ, direct to; and in which they have been trained up, having had a religious education; for it supposes them to have been externally in these ways, since they are said to leave them; for though persons do not easily and ordinarily leave the ways they have been brought up in, yet sometimes they do; and there are instances of it, and such generally are the worst of men; to walk in the ways of darkness:
sin, ignorance, and infidelity; in which they that walk know not where they are, nor whither they are a going, and which must be very uncomfortable as well as dangerous; in which only works of darkness are done, and which lead to blackness of darkness, the darkness of hell; a miserable choice, a sad change this! So Schultens renders it, "ways of horrid darkness".

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 (rvy twxra) "semitas rectas", Mercerus; "itinera recta", Piscator; "itinera planissima", Schultens.

Proverbs 2:13 In-Context

11 Discretion will watch over you; understanding will protect you,

12 [in order] to deliver you from the way of evil, from a man who speaks devious things--

13 those who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in ways of darkness,

14 those who are happy to do evil, [for] they delight in [the] deviousness of evil,

15 {who are crooked in their ways}, and devious in their paths;