26 Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.
So that your hearts may be strong and free from all sin before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
But the Lord is true, who will give you strength and keep you safe from evil.
If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules!
She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.
I gave thought to my steps, and my feet were turned into the way of your unchanging word.
For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.
For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.
For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.
And make straight roads for your feet, so that the feeble may not be turned out of the way, but may be made strong.
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Commentary on Proverbs 4 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 4
When the things of God are to be taught precept must be upon precept, and line upon line, not only because the things themselves are of great worth and weight, but because men's minds, at the best, are unapt to admit them and commonly prejudiced against them; and therefore Solomon, in this chapter, with a great variety of expression and a pleasant powerful flood of divine eloquence, inculcates the same things that he had pressed upon us in the foregoing chapters. Here is,
So plainly, so pressingly, is the case laid before us, that we shall be for ever inexcusable if we perish in our folly.
Pro 4:1-13
Here we have,
Pro 4:14-19
Some make David's instructions to Solomon, which began v. 4, to continue to the end of the chapter; nay, some continue them to the end of the ninth chapter; but it is more probable that Solomon begins here again, if not sooner. In these verses, having exhorted us to walk in the paths of wisdom, he cautions us against the path of the wicked.
Pro 4:20-27
Solomon, having warned us not to do evil, here teaches us how to do well. It is not enough for us to shun the occasions of sin, but we must study the methods of duty.