English Standard Version
Proverbs 22:5
5Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them.
Proverbs 22:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
- New International Version (NIV)In the paths of the wicked are snares and pitfalls, but those who would preserve their life stay far from them.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; He who guards his soul will be far from them.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Corrupt people walk a thorny, treacherous road; whoever values life will avoid it.
Context of Proverbs 22:5
3The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. 4The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life. Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them. 6Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. 7The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Read all of Proverbs 22Proverbs 22:5 word by word
צִנִּ֣ים פַּ֭חִים בְּדֶ֣רֶךְ עִקֵּ֑שׁ שׁוֹמֵ֥ר נַ֝פְשׁ֗וֹ יִרְחַ֥ק מֵהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 22:5
- Proverbs 13:15Good sense wins favor, but the way of the treacherous is their ruin.
- Proverbs 15:19The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.
- Joshua 23:13know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the Lord your God has given you.
- Job 18:8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh.
- Psalms 11:6Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
- Psalms 18:26with the purified you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
- Proverbs 13:3Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
- Proverbs 16:17The highway of the upright turns aside from evil; whoever guards his way preserves his life.
- Proverbs 19:16Whoever keeps the commandment keeps his life; he who despises his ways will die.
- Psalms 91:1He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
- 1 John 5:18We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.
- Jude 1:20But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
Commentaries on Proverbs 22:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Thorns and snares - Various difficulties, trials, and sufferings.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5Verse 5 The way of sin is vexatious and dangerous. But the way of duty is safe and easy.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5Living by deceit is risky. Corrupt people never know when others will discover their treachery or when it will backfire.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. he that ... them--Those who properly watch over their own souls are thus preserved from the dangers which attend the way of perverse men (Pr 16:17).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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