SEV Biblia, Chapter 14:12
ΒΆ Hay camino que al hombre parece derecho; pero su fin son caminos de muerte.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 14:12
Verse 12. 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 favour and their Church's gratitude. But cruelty and murder are the short road, the near way, to eternal perdition.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 12. There is a way which seemeth right unto a man , etc.] As the way of sin and wickedness does, it promising much carnal pleasure and mirth; there is a great deal of company in it, it is a broad road, and is pleasant, and seems right, but it leads to destruction; so the way of the hypocrite and Pharisee that trusts to his own righteousness, and despises others, and even the righteousness of Christ; or however does not submit to it, but tramples upon him, and counts the blood of the covenant an unholy thing, and so is deserving of sorer punishment than the profane sinner; yet on account of his good works, as he calls them, fancies himself to be in a fair way for heaven and happiness; so Popery, through the pomp and grandeur and gaudiness of worship, through the lying miracles of the priests, and the air of devotion that appears in them, seems to be a right way; but the end thereof [are] the ways of death ; which lead unto eternal death; for that is the wages of sin, let it appear in what shape it will.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 12 - The ways of carelessness, of worldliness, and of sensuality, seem righ to those that walk in them; but self-deceivers prove self-destroyers See the vanity of carnal mirth.
Original Hebrew
ישׁ 3426 דרך 1870 ישׁר 3477 לפני 6440 אישׁ 376 ואחריתה 319 דרכי 1870 מות׃ 4194
