26 Make level the path of thy feet, And let all thy ways be established.
to the end he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you, and guard you from the evil `one'.
Oh that my ways were established To observe thy statutes!
So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, `and' she knoweth `it' not.
I thought on my ways, And turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah; And he maketh level all his paths.
Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way, but rather be healed.
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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.