Proverbs 16:25
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
In Context
24Pleasant words are [as] a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health for the bones.
26The appetite of the labourer laboureth for him, for his mouth urgeth him on.
Cross References
Proverbs 12:15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes; but he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsel.
Proverbs 14:12There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death.
John 7:47The Pharisees therefore answered them, Are ye also deceived?
Acts 26:9*I* indeed myself thought that I ought to do much against the name of Jesus the Nazaraean.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:25
24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. The pleasant words here commended must be those which the heart of the wise teaches, and adds learning to ( v. 23 ), words of seasonable advice, instruction, and comfort, words taken from God's word, for that is it which Solomon had learned from his father to account sweeter than honey and the honey-comb, Ps. xix. 10 . These words, to those that know how to relish them, 1. Are pleasant. They are like the honey-comb, sweet to the… Read the whole commentary →