The interpretation timeline

Prov 22:5

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 22:5 · Douay-Rheims
“Arms and swords are in the way of the perverse: but he that keepeth his own soul departeth far from them.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“Swords and arrows in the way of the perverse, etc. This is to be understood in two ways, because the perverse are always armed to harm their neighbors, either by word or wicked deed, and they themselves are always awaited by the prepared retribution of the divine judgment. But he who seeks to save his soul for eternity, far avoids such swords and arrows, for he restrains his mind and hand from harming his neighbors, and lest he be struck by the punishment of the strict judge, he cautiously avoids it with an attentive mind.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.