Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
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Gill's Exposition
Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness,.... Their course of life may fitly be compared, and in the issue will prove to be like to a man's walking in a dark night…
Barnes' Notes
Every word denotes the certainty of their fall. “Their path is like slippery places in darkness:” and on this path “they are pushed with violence.” External circumstances assist in urging on to ruin…
Here is a long lesson for the false prophets. As none were more bitter and spiteful against God's true prophets than they, so there were none on whom the true prophets were more severe, and justly.…
Cambridge Bible
The figure is of men forced onwards by a pursuing foe, while they can neither see their way nor keep their footing. Cp. Psa 35:6.
driven on lit. thrust. Cp. for the expression Pro 14:32.
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