Proverbs 28:18
Whoever walks simply shall be saved. Whoever is perverse in his steps will fall all at once.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
17A man who slanders the blood of a life, even if he flees to the pit, no one will tolerate him.
Cross References
Numbers 22:32And the Angel said to him: “Why did you beat your donkey three times? I have come to be an adversary to you, because your way is perverse and contrary to me.
Psalms 73:18Be mindful of this: the enemy placed blame against the Lord, and a foolish people has incited against your name.
Psalms 125:5Those who sow in tears shall reap in exultation.
Proverbs 10:25Like a passing tempest, so the impious one will be no more. But the just one is like an everlasting foundation.
Proverbs 11:5The justice of the simple shall direct his way. And the impious will fall in his impiety.
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 →