Ecclesiastes 7:18

Ecclesiastes 7:18 [It is] good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.

Ver. 18. It is good that thou shouldst take hold of this,] i.e., Of this golden mean, walking accurately by line and by rule, and continuing constant in thine integrity, not turning aside to the right hand or to the left. As for those that "turn aside unto those crooked ways" Psa 125:5 of being just too much by needless scrupulosity, or wicked excessively by detestable exorbitancy, "the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity," as cattle led to the slaughter, or malefactors to execution; whereas, "he that feareth God shall come out of them all." He shall "look forthright," Pro 4:25 and shall have "no occasion of stumbling." 1Jn 2:10 He shall also be freed from, or pulled as a "firebrand out of the fire." Zec 3:2