Proverbs 16:17

“The highway--A common, plain road represents the habitual course of the righteous in departing from evil. keepeth--observes.”

“The high - way - Their common road, in which they walk, tho' through frailty or temptation they slip into the bypath of sin. From evil - From the evil of sin, and consequently from the evil of punishment. Keepeth - That takes heed to walk in that high - way. Proverbs 16:20”

“highway: Pro 4:24-27; Isa 35:8; Act 10:35, Act 24:16; Tit 2:10-14 he: Pro 10:9, Pro 19:16; Mat 24:13; Heb 10:39; Jde 1:21, Jde 1:24; Rev 3:10 Proverbs 16:18”

“17 The path of the righteous is the avoiding of evil, And he preserveth his soul who giveth heed to his way. The meaning of מסלּה, occurring only here in the Proverbs, is to be learned from Pro 15:19. The attribution denotes that wherein the way they take consists, or by which it is formed; it is one, a straight and an open way, i.e., unimpeded, leading them on, because they avoid the evil which entices them aside to the right and the left. Whoever then gives heed to his way, preserveth his soul (שׁמר נפשׁו, as Pro 13:3, on the contrary Pro 25:5, subj.), that it suffer not injury and fall under death, for סוּר מרע and סור ממוקשׁי מות, Pro 14:27, are essentially the same. Instead of this…”