Proverbs 28:18
Whoever is walking uprightly is saved, || And the perverted of ways falls at once.
Literal Standard Version
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
Cross References
Numbers 22:32and the Messenger of YHWH says to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out for an adversary, for [your] way has been perverse before Me,
Psalms 25:21Integrity and uprightness keep me, || For I have waited [on] You.
Psalms 73:18Surely You set them in slippery places, || You have caused them to fall to desolations.
Psalms 125:5As for those turning [to] their crooked ways, || YHWH causes them to go with workers of iniquity. Peace on Israel!
Proverbs 10:25As the passing by of a windstorm, || So the wicked is not, || And the righteous is a perpetual foundation.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the perfect makes his way right, || And by his wickedness the wicked fall.
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 →