11 The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the godly will flourish.

12 There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 14:11-12

Commentary on Proverbs 14:11

(Read Proverbs 14:11)

Sin ruins many great families; whilst righteousness often raises and strengthens even mean families.

Commentary on Proverbs 14:12-13

(Read Proverbs 14:12-13)

The ways of carelessness, of worldliness, and of sensuality, seem right to those that walk in them; but self-deceivers prove self-destroyers. See the vanity of carnal mirth.