Proverbs 28:18
He who walks with integrity will be kept safe, but whoever is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall.
Berean Standard Bible
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 burdened by bloodguilt will flee into the Pit; let no one support him.
Cross References
Numbers 22:32The angel of the LORD asked him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you, because your way is perverse before me.
Psalms 25:21May integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for You.
Psalms 73:18Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
Psalms 125:5But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
Proverbs 10:25When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are secure forever.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the blameless directs their path, but the wicked fall by their 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 →