Proverbs 28:18
He who walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
Webster 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 that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
Cross References
Numbers 22:32And the angel of the LORD said to him, Why hast thou smitten thy ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:
Psalms 25:21Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
Psalms 73:18Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou didst cast them down into destruction.
Psalms 125:5As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
Proverbs 10:25As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more : but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the perfect shall 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 →