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16The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

Proverbs 21:16

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

  • As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.

  • Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

  • For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. …

  • These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16)

Here is, 1. The sinner upon his ramble: He wanders out of the way of understanding , and when once he has left that good way he wanders endlessly. The way of religion is the way of understanding ; those that are not truly pious are not truly intelligent; those that wander out of this way break the hedge which God has set, and follow the conduct of the world and the flesh; and they go astray like l…

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