Proverbs 13:6
Justice keepeth the way of the innocent: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
In Context
5The just shall hate a lying word: but the wicked confoundeth, and shall be confounded.
Cross References
1 Kings 13:34And for this cause did the house of Jeroboam sin, and was cut off, and destroyed from the face of the earth.
Psalms 15:2I have said to the Lord, thou art my God, for thou hast no need of my goods.
Psalms 26:1The psalm of David before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life: of whom shall I be afraid?
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.
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 13:6
The Righteous Exclusively Happy. 5 A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame. Note, 1. Where grace reigns sin is loathsome. It is the undoubted character of every righteous man that he hates lying (that is, all sin, for every sin is a lie, and particularly all fraud and falsehood in commerce and conversation), not only that he will not tell a lie, but he abhors lying, from a rooted reigning principle of love to truth and justice, and conformity to God. 2. Where sin reigns the… Read the whole commentary →