Proverbs 13:14 - Exposition

The law (instruction) of the wise is a fountain of life ( Proverbs 10:11 ), which has and imparts life (Ec Proverbs 21:13 ; Psalms 36:9 ). The rules and teaching of wise men are a source of life to those who follow them, so that they depart from the snares of death ( Proverbs 14:27 ). Obedience to good teaching saves from many dangers, material and spiritual, especially from the snare of the devil ( 2 Timothy 2:26 ). With "snares of death" we may compare Psalms 18:5 and Horace's ('Carm.,' 3.24. 8)

" Non mortis laqueis expedies caput ."

Septuagint, "The fool shall perish by the snare."