15 whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.
15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
15 men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
15 Traveling paths that go nowhere, wandering in a maze of detours and dead ends.
15 Whose ways are crooked, And who are devious in their paths;
15 Their actions are crooked, and their ways are wrong.
32 For the Lord detests the perverse but takes the upright into his confidence.
32 For the froward is abomination to the Lord: but his secret is with the righteous.
32 for the devious person is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence.
32 "Why not?" you say. Because God can't stand twisted souls. It's the straightforward who get his respect.
32 For the perverse person is an abomination to the Lord, But His secret counsel is with the upright.
32 Such wicked people are detestable to the Lord, but he offers his friendship to the godly.
(Read Proverbs 3:27-35)
Our business is to observe the precepts of Christ, and to copy his example; to do justice, to love mercy, and to beware of covetousness; to be ready for every good work, avoiding needless strife, and bearing evils, if possible, rather than seeking redress by law. It will be found there is little got by striving. Let us not envy prosperous oppressors; far be it from the disciples of Christ to choose any of their ways. These truths may be despised by the covetous and luxurious, but everlasting contempt will be the portion of such scorners, while Divine favour is shown to the humble believer.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 2:15
Commentary on Proverbs 2:10-22
(Read Proverbs 2:10-22)
If we are truly wise, we shall be careful to avoid all evil company and evil practices. When wisdom has dominion over us, then it not only fills the head, but enters into the heart, and will preserve, both against corruptions within and temptations without. The ways of sin are ways of darkness, uncomfortable and unsafe: what fools are those who leave the plain, pleasant, lightsome paths of uprightness, to walk in such ways! They take pleasure in sin; both in committing it, and in seeing others commit it. Every wise man will shun such company. True wisdom will also preserve from those who lead to fleshly lusts, which defile the body, that living temple, and war against the soul. These are evils which excite the sorrow of every serious mind, and cause every reflecting parent to look upon his children with anxiety, lest they should be entangled in such fatal snares. Let the sufferings of others be our warnings. Our Lord Jesus deters from sinful pleasures, by the everlasting torments which follow them. It is very rare that any who are caught in this snare of the devil, recover themselves; so much is the heart hardened, and the mind blinded, by the deceitfulness of this sin. Many think that this caution, besides the literal sense, is to be understood as a caution against idolatry, and subjecting the soul to the body, by seeking any forbidden object. The righteous must leave the earth as well as the wicked; but the earth is a very different thing to them. To the wicked it is all the heaven they ever shall have; to the righteous it is the place of preparation for heaven. And is it all one to us, whether we share with the wicked in the miseries of their latter end, or share those everlasting joys that shall crown believers?