חסידות אויף משלי 14:12

then “he is saved from all of them,” for before he confessed, even though he was by the Torah sage and gave him money, yet he did not know which road he was on, for "There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Prov. 14), but when he arrived at the crossroads, which is a Torah sage and “the day of death,” i.e. spoken confession before a Torah sage, then “he is saved from all of them.”