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Selected Verse: Proverbs 14:12 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
Pr 14:12	Strong Concordance	There is [03426] a way [01870] which seemeth right [03477] unto [06440] a man [0376], but the end [0319] thereof are the ways [01870] of death [04194].
	King James	There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
end thereof--or, "reward," what results (compare Pro 5:4). ways of death--leading to it.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

end thereof--or, "reward," what results (compare Pro 5:4).

ways of death--leading to it.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
A way ... - The way of the fool, the way of self-indulgence and self-will.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

A way ... - The way of the fool, the way of self-indulgence and self-will.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
12 There is a way that seemeth right to one, But the end thereof are the ways of death. This is literally repeated in Pro 16:25. The rightness is present only as a phantom, for it arises wholly from a terrible self-deception; the man judges falsely and goes astray when, without regard to God and His word, he follows only his own opinions. It is the way of estrangement from God, of fleshly security; the way of vice, in which the blinded thinks to spend his life, to set himself to fulfil his purposes; but the end thereof (אחריתהּ with neut. fem.: the end of this intention, that in which it issues) are the ways of death. He who thus deceives himself regarding his course of life, sees himself at last arrived at a point from which every way which now further remains to him leads only down to death. The self-delusion of one ends in death by the sentence of the judge, that of another in self-murder; of one in loathsome disease, of another in a slow decay under the agony of conscience, or in sorrow over a henceforth dishonoured and distracted life.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

12 There is a way that seemeth right to one,

But the end thereof are the ways of death.

This is literally repeated in Pro 16:25. The rightness is present only as a phantom, for it arises wholly from a terrible self-deception; the man judges falsely and goes astray when, without regard to God and His word, he follows only his own opinions. It is the way of estrangement from God, of fleshly security; the way of vice, in which the blinded thinks to spend his life, to set himself to fulfil his purposes; but the end thereof (אחריתהּ with neut. fem.: the end of this intention, that in which it issues) are the ways of death. He who thus deceives himself regarding his course of life, sees himself at last arrived at a point from which every way which now further remains to him leads only down to death. The self-delusion of one ends in death by the sentence of the judge, that of another in self-murder; of one in loathsome disease, of another in a slow decay under the agony of conscience, or in sorrow over a henceforth dishonoured and distracted life.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Right - There are some evil courses which men may think to be lawful and good. The end - The event shews that they were sinful and destructive.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]

Right - There are some evil courses which men may think to be lawful and good. The end - The event shews that they were sinful and destructive.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man - This may be his easily besetting sin, the sin of his constitution, the sin of his trade. Or it may be his own false views of religion: he may have an imperfect repentance, a false faith, a very false creed; and he may persuade himself that he is in the direct way to heaven. Many of the papists, when they were burning the saints of God in the flames at Smithfield, thought they were doing God service! And in the late Irish massacre, the more of the Protestants they piked to death, shot, or burnt, the more they believed they deserved of God's favor and their Church's gratitude. But cruelty and murder are the short road, the near way, to eternal perdition.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man - This may be his easily besetting sin, the sin of his constitution, the sin of his trade. Or it may be his own false views of religion: he may have an imperfect repentance, a false faith, a very false creed; and he may persuade himself that he is in the direct way to heaven. Many of the papists, when they were burning the saints of God in the flames at Smithfield, thought they were doing God service! And in the late Irish massacre, the more of the Protestants they piked to death, shot, or burnt, the more they believed they deserved of God's favor and their Church's gratitude. But cruelty and murder are the short road, the near way, to eternal perdition.

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