Proverbs 28:18
He that walketh uprightly, shall be saved: he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 that doth violence to the blood of a person, if he flee even to the pit, no man will stay him.
Cross References
Numbers 22:32And the angel said to him: Why beatest thou thy ass these three times? I am come to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse, and contrary to me:
Psalms 25:21The innocent and the upright have adhered to me: because I have waited on thee.
Psalms 73:18But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.
Psalms 125:5Our soul hath passed through a torrent: perhaps our soul had passed through a water insupportable.
Proverbs 10:25As a tempest that passeth, so the wicked shall be no more: but the just is as an everlasting foundation.
Proverbs 11:5The justice of the upright shall make his way prosperous: and the wicked man shall fall 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 →