24 Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.
For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:
For our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ:
You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever.
See if there is any way of sorrow in me, and be my guide in the eternal way.
For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.
Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.
Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld.
And to this people you are to say, The Lord has said, See, I put before you the way of life and the way of death.
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Commentary on Proverbs 15 Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
We take these verses together as forming a group which begins with a proverb regarding the good and evil which flows from the tongue, and closes with a proverb regarding the treasure in which blessing is found, and that in which no blessing is found.
Proverbs 15:1
1 A soft answer turneth away wrath,
And a bitter word stirreth up anger.
In the second line, the common word for anger ( אף , from the breathing with the nostrils, Proverbs 14:17) is purposely placed, but in the first, that which denotes anger in the highest degree ( חמה from יחם , cogn. חמם , Arab. hamiya , to glow, like שׁנה from ישׁן ): a mild, gentle word turns away the heat of anger ( excandescentiam ), puts it back, cf. Proverbs 25:15. The Dagesh in רּך follows the rule of the דחיק , i.e. , of the close connection of a word terminating with the accented eh, aah, ah with the following word ( Michlol 63b). The same is the meaning of the Latin proverb:
Frangitur ira gravis
Quando est responsio suavis