Proverbs 28:18
He who walketh tamim (blamelessly) shall be saved, 1 but he that is perverse in his drakhim shall fall suddenly. 1
Orthodox Jewish 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
Cross References
Numbers 22:32And the Malach Hashem said unto him, Why hast thou beaten thine donkey these shalosh regalim? Hinei, I came l'satan (as adversary, opposer) to thee, because thy derech is perverse before me;
Psalms 25:21[Tav] Let tohm (integrity, guilelessness) and uprightness preserve me; 1 for I wait on Thee. 1
Psalms 73:18Surely Thou didst set them in slippery places; 1 Thou castedst them down into mashu'ot (ruins, destruction). 1
Psalms 125:5As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, 1 Hashem shall turn them away with the workers of iniquity; 1 but shalom shall be upon Yisroel.
Proverbs 10:25As the whirlwind passeth, so is the rashah no more, 1 but the tzaddik is a yesod olam (an everlasting foundation). 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 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 →