Proverbs 12:28
On the path of righteousness there is life; and on her pathway there is immortality,
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 30:15See, I have set before thee this day life and the good, death and the evil;
Proverbs 8:35For he who findeth me findeth life, and he obtaineth favor from the Lord.
Proverbs 10:2Treasures of wickedness will not profit aught; but righteousness will deliver from death.
Proverbs 11:19He who is firm in righteousness attaineth to life: and he that pursueth evil [doth it] to his own death.
Ezekiel 18:20The soul that sinneth, she alone shall die; the son shall not help to bear the iniquity of the father and the father shall not help to bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 12:28
27 The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious. Here is, 1. That which may make us hate slothfulness and deceit, for the word here, as before, signifies both: The slothful deceitful man has roast meat, but that which he roasts is not what he himself took in hunting, no, it is what others took pains for, and he lives upon the fruit of their labours, like the drones in the hive. Or, if slothful deceitful men have taken any thing by hunting (as… Read the whole commentary →