19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
19 Such are the paths of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the life of those who get it.
19 Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.
19 When you grab all you can get, that's what happens: the more you get, the less you are. Lady Wisdom
19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; It takes away the life of its owners.
19 Such is the fate of all who are greedy for money; it robs them of life.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Proverbs 1:19
Commentary on Proverbs 1:10-19
(Read Proverbs 1:10-19)
Wicked people are zealous in seducing others into the paths of the destroyer: sinners love company in sin. But they have so much the more to answer for. How cautious young people should be! "Consent thou not." Do not say as they say, nor do as they do, or would have thee to do; have no fellowship with them. Who could think that it should be a pleasure to one man to destroy another! See their idea of worldly wealth; but it is neither substance, nor precious. It is the ruinous mistake of thousands, that they overvalue the wealth of this world. Men promise themselves in vain that sin will turn to their advantage. The way of sin is down-hill; men cannot stop themselves. Would young people shun temporal and eternal ruin, let them refuse to take one step in these destructive paths. Men's greediness of gain hurries them upon practices which will not suffer them or others to live out half their days. What is a man profited, though he gain the world, if he lose his life? much less if he lose his soul?