Proverbs Chapter 28 verse 18 Holy Bible

ASV Proverbs 28:18

Whoso walketh uprightly shall be delivered; But he that is perverse in `his' ways shall fall at once.
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BBE Proverbs 28:18

He whose ways are upright will be safe, but sudden will be the fall of him whose ways are twisted.
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DARBY Proverbs 28:18

Whoso walketh in integrity shall be saved; but he that is perverted in [his] double ways, shall fall in one [of them].
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KJV Proverbs 28:18

Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
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WBT Proverbs 28:18


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WEB Proverbs 28:18

Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; But one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
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YLT Proverbs 28:18

Whoso is walking uprightly is saved, And the perverted of ways falleth at once.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved. "Uprightly" (tamim); innocently, blamelessly (Psalm 15:2). Vulgate, simpliciter; Septuagint, δικαίως; Aquila, Symmachus, τέλειος. "He is helped (βεβοήθηται)," Septuagint. Things shall prosper with him; God will work with him, and save him in dangers temporal and spiritual. But he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once. "He that is perverse of two ways," or "in a double way," as ver. 6. The man who is not straightforward, but vacillates between right and wrong, or pretends to be pursuing one path while he is really taking another, shall fall suddenly and without warning. בְּאֶחָת means "all at once," or "once for all," and so that nothing else is possible, equivalent to penitus. Schultens quotes Virgil, 'AEneid,' 11:418 - "Procubuit moriens et humum semel ore momordit." Septuagint, "He that walketh in crooked ways will be entangled."

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) He that is perverse in his ways.--Literally, two ways. (Comp. note on Proverbs 28:6.)At once--i.e., all of a sudden, without warning.