15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
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15 Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on.
15 Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.
15 avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass away.
15 Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
15 Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.
Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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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.