Proverbs 28:18
He who walketh uprightly shall be safe; But he who is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
Noyes 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 who is burdened with life-blood—Let him flee to the pit! let no man stay him!
Cross References
Psalms 25:21Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For on thee do I rest my hope!
Psalms 73:18Behold! thou hast set them on slippery places; Thou castest them down into unseen pits.
Psalms 125:5But such as turn aside to their crooked ways,-May the LORD destroy them with the evil-doers! Peace be to Israel!
Proverbs 10:25When the whirlwind passeth by, the wicked is no more; But the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the good man maketh his way plain; But the wicked falleth through his 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 →