Mishle 2:13

13 Who leaving the orkhot yosher (paths of uprightness), walk in the drakhei choshech (ways of darkness);

Mishle 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.

Mishle 2:13 In-Context

11 Mezimah (discretion) shall be shomer over thee, tevunah (understanding) shall safeguard thee;

12 To save thee from the derech rah, from the ish medaber tahpukhot (man speaking perverse things);

13 Who leaving the orkhot yosher (paths of uprightness), walk in the drakhei choshech (ways of darkness);

14 Who rejoice to do rah, and delight in the tahpukhot (perverse things) of rah (evil);

15 Whose orkhot (paths) are crooked ones, and they are devious in their ma’agalot (paths);