Proverbs 11:3
The simpleness of just men shall (ad)dress them; and the deceiving of wayward men shall destroy them. (The honesty, or the integrity, of the righteous shall direct them; and the deceptions of the wayward shall destroy them.)
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Psalms 25:21Innocent men and rightful cleaved to me; for I suffered thee. (Let innocence and uprightness, or integrity, cleave to me; for I have waited for thee.)
Proverbs 11:5The rightfulness of a simple man shall (ad)dress his way; and a wicked man shall fall in his wickedness. (The uprightness of an honest person shall direct his way; and a wicked person shall fall because of his wickedness.)
Proverbs 19:3The folly of a man deceiveth his steps (or A person’s foolishness perverteth his own way); and he burneth in his soul against God.
Proverbs 28:18He that goeth simply shall be safe (or He who goeth honestly, or with integrity, shall be safe); (but) he that goeth by wayward ways, shall fall down [at] once.
Isaiah 1:28and God shall all-break [the] cursed men and [the] sinners together, and they that forsake the Lord, shall be wasted, (or and they who desert the Lord, shall be destroyed).
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 11:3
2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom. Observe, 1. How he that exalts himself is here abased, and contempt put upon him. When pride comes then comes shame. Pride is a sin which men have reason to be themselves ashamed of; it is a shame to a man who springs out of the earth, who lives upon alms, depends upon God, and has forfeited all he has, to be proud. It is a sin which others cry out shame on and look upon with disdain; he that is haughty makes himself contemptible; it is a sin… Read the whole commentary →