Proverbs 4:27 - Exposition

This verse, with which the teacher closes this discourse, is very closely connected with Proverbs 4:26 , which it more fully explains. The command is the parallel of Proverbs 4:25 . As in Proverbs 4:25 , the gaze is to be concentrated. So here the feet are not to deflect nor turn aside to byways. Nothing is to be permitted to draw one off from the right way, neither adversity, nor prosperity, nor anything which can possess the power of temptation (Bayne and Wardlaw). Remove thy foot from evil. A fuller expression than "depart from evil," of Proverbs 3:7 . Both the LXX . and the Vulgate add, "For the Lord knows the ways which are on thy right hand; but they are perverse which are on thy left. He shall make thy paths straight, and shall advance thy ways in peace."