Proverbs 28:18

Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; 2 but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly. 1

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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 tormented by life-blood will be a fugitive until the pit (of Abbadon, the unrighteous side of Sheol); 2 no one will support him. 1

19One who works his land will have an abundance of food; 2 but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty. 1

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Cross References

Numbers 22:32Ha mal'ak Yahweh [The Angel of He sustains breathing] said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me.

Psalms 25:21תּ Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, 2 for I wait for you. 1

Psalms 73:18Surely you set them in slippery places. 2 You throw them down to destruction. 1

Psalms 125:5But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, 2 Adonai will lead them away with the workers of vain striving of iniquity. 1 Peace be on Israel [God prevails].

Proverbs 10:25When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; 2 but the upright stand firm forever. 1

Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, 2 but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. 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 →

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