56 Heb “good insight.” The expression שֵׂכֶל־טוֹב (sekhel-tov) describes a person who has good sense, sound judgment, or wise opinions ( 968 שֵׂכֶל).
57 Heb “gives”; “produces.”
58 Heb “way,” frequently for conduct, behavior, or lifestyle.
59 The reads אֵיתָן (’etan, “enduring; permanent; perennial”; 450 יתן 1). Several scholars suggest that the text here is corrupt and the reading should be “harsh; hard; firm; rugged” ( 450 2). G. R. Driver suggested that לֹא (lo’, “not”) was dropped before the word by haplography and so the meaning would have been not “enduring” but “passing away” (“Problems in the Hebrew Text of Proverbs,” 32 [1951]: 181). The , , and reflect a Hebrew of תֹאבֵד (to’ved) “are destroyed.” The editors suggest emending the text to אֵידָם (’edam) “their calamity” from אֵיד (’ed, “calamity, distress”; 15 ): “the way of the faithless [leads to] their calamity.” The idea of “harsh” or “hard” could also be drawn from a meaning of the word in the meaning “firm,” that is, enduring.