Proverbs 28:18
Whoso walketh in integrity shall be saved; but he that is perverted in [his] double ways, shall fall in one [of them].
Darby Translation
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 laden with the blood of [any] person, fleeth to the pit: let no man stay him.
Cross References
Numbers 22:32And the Angel of Jehovah said to him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, it was I who came forth to withstand thee, for the way [thou walkest in] is for ruin before me.
Psalms 25:21Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
Psalms 73:18Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.
Psalms 125:5But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel!
Proverbs 10:25As a whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no [more]; but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the perfect maketh plain his way; but the wicked falleth by his own wickedness.
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 →