Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 4:14
Enter not into the path of the wicked - Never associate with those whose life is irregular and sinful; never accompany them in any of their acts of transgression. read more
Proverbs 4:14-22 Nasb
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 4:15
Avoid it - Let it be the serious purpose of thy soul to shun every appearance of evil. Pass not by it - Never, for the sake of worldly gain, or through complaisance to others, approach the way that thou wouldst not wish to be found in when God calls thee into the eternal world. Turn from it - If, through unwatchfulness or unfaithfulness, thou at any time get near or into the way of sin, turn from it with the utmost speed, and humble thyself before thy Maker. And pass away - Speed... read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 4:16
Except they have done mischief - The night is their time for spoil and depredation. And they must gain some booty, before they go to rest. This I believe to be the meaning of the passage. I grant, also, that there may be some of so malevolent a disposition that they cannot be easy unless they can injure others, and are put to excessive pain when they perceive any man in prosperity, or receiving a kindness. The address in Virgil, to an illnatured shepherd is well known: - Et cum vidisti... read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness - By privately stealing. And drink the wine of violence - By highway robbery. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the just - The path of the wicked is gloomy, dark, and dangerous; that of the righteous is open, luminous, and instructive. This verse contains a fine metaphor; it refers to the sun rising above the horizon, and the increasing twilight, till his beams shine full upon the earth. The original, היום נכון עד ואור הולך holech vaor ad nechon haiyom , may be translated, "going and illuminating unto the prepared day." This seems plainly to refer to the progress of the rising sun... read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 4:21
Keep them in the midst of thine heart - Let them be wrapped up in the very center of thy affections; that they may give spring and energy to every desire, word, and wish. read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 4:1-27
7. Seventh admonitory discourse. We here enter upon the second group of admonitory discourses, as is indicated by the opening address, "my children," and which occurs again in Proverbs 5:7 and Proverbs 7:24 . This group extends to the end of Proverbs 7:1-27 . Its prevailing tone is that of warning rather than of positive exhortations, which have been the rule hitherto. The general aim of the discourse before us, as of those preceding, is to exalt Wisdom, to exhibit her as a subject... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 4:14
From admonition the father passes to warning. The connection with the preceding section is obvious. There are two ways diametrically opposite—the way of wisdom and the way of evil; the one the way of life, the other fraught with death, because a way of darkness and violence. As the father has dealt with the former, so now he deals with the latter. With these warnings we may also comp. Proverbs 1:10-15 and Proverbs 2:10-15 , where much the same warning is given, and the way of the wicked is... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 4:14-15
Bad company I. THE DUTY OF AVOIDING BAD COMPANY . We are all more or less unconsciously affected by the tone of the society we frequent. Even the strongest, most independent spirit cannot wholly fortify himself against this influence. As water wears the hardest rock, the constant friction of social intercourse makes itself felt in course of time upon the most resolute character. We are naturally gregarious. Without knowing it, nay, even while protesting against it, we are... read more
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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 4:22
For they are life unto those that find them ,.... The words or doctrines of Christ, whose type Solomon was, are to be found in the field of the Scriptures, by diligent searching for them; and being found, they are the means of spiritual life, and of maintaining it, and of showing the way, and bringing unto eternal life; see John 6:63 ; and health to all their flesh ; the whole man, soul and body, as they are the means of preserving the body from many diseases, which intemperance,... read more