Proverbs 28:18

He whose ways are upright will be safe, but sudden will be the fall of him whose ways are twisted.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

In Context

17One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.

19By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.

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Cross References

Numbers 22:32And the angel of the Lord said to him, Why have you given your ass blows these three times? See, I have come out against you to keep you back, because your purpose is not pleasing to me.

Psalms 25:21For my clean and upright ways keep me safe, because my hope is in you.

Psalms 73:18You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

Psalms 125:5But as for such as are turned out of the straight way, the Lord will take them away with the workers of evil. Let peace be on Israel.

Proverbs 10:25When the storm-wind is past, the sinner is seen no longer, but the upright man is safe for ever.

Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:18

17 A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him. This agrees with that ancient law, Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed ( Gen. ix. 6 ), and proclaims, 1. The doom of the shedder of blood. He that has committed murder, though he flees for his life, shall be continually haunted with terrors, shall himself flee to the pit, betray himself, and torment himself, like Cain, who, when he had killed his brother, became a fugitive and a vagabond, and… Read the whole commentary →

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