Proverbs 13:6
Tzedakah is guard over him whose derech is blameless, 1 but wickedness overthroweth the chattat (sinner). 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
In Context
5A tzaddik hateth sheker, 1 but a wicked man is shamefully loathsome, and bringeth disgrace. 1
Cross References
1 Kings 13:34And this thing became chattat (sin) unto the Bais Yarov'am, even to annihilate it, and to destroy it from off the face of ha'adamah.
Psalms 15:2He that walketh blamelessly, and worketh tzedek, 1 and speaketh emes from his lev. 1
Psalms 26:1(Of Dovid) 1 for I have walked in mine tohm (guilelessness); 1 I have trusted also in Hashem without wavering. 1
Proverbs 5:22His own avonot shall entrap the rashah himself, 1 and he shall be held fast by the cords of his chattat. 1
Proverbs 11:5The tzidkat tamim (righteousness of the blameless) shall make his derech straight, 1 but the rasha shall fall by his own evil. 1
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 →