Proverbs 28:18
Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
World Messianic 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 tormented by blood guilt will be a fugitive until death. No one will support him.
Cross References
Numbers 22:32The LORD’s angel 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 25:21Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
Psalms 73:18Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
Psalms 125:5But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, the LORD will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
Proverbs 10:25When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own 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 →