Proverbs 28:18
Whoso is walking uprightly is saved, And the perverted of ways falleth at once.
Young's Literal Translation
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 oppressed with the blood of a soul, Unto the pit fleeth, none taketh hold on him.
Cross References
Numbers 22:32and the messenger of Jehovah saith unto him, 'Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? lo, I — I have come out for an adversary, for [thy] way hath been perverse before me,
Psalms 25:21Integrity and uprightness do keep me, For I have waited [on] Thee.
Psalms 73:18Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.
Psalms 125:5As to those turning [to] their crooked ways, Jehovah causeth them to go with workers of iniquity. Peace on Israel!
Proverbs 10:25As the passing by of a hurricane, So the wicked is not, And the righteous is a foundation age-during.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the perfect maketh right his way, And by his wickedness doth the wicked fall.
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 →