Proverbs 2:14

Proverbs 2:14

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12 To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things,

13 From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To ^awalk in the ways of darkness;

14 ^aWho rejoice in doing evil,
And delight in the perversity of the wicked;

15 ^aWhose ways are crooked,
And who are devious in their paths;

16 To deliver you from ^athe immoral woman,
^bFrom the seductress who flatters with her words,

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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and that with pleasure, in ignorance of good and pursuit of evil.

frowardness—Not only their own perversity, but that of others is their delight. They love most the worst things.

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To deliver—as from great danger (Proverbs 6:5).

way . . . man— (Psalms 1:1).

froward things—perversity (Proverbs 6:14; Proverbs 23:23), what is opposed to truth.

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