Proverbs 11:5
3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
7 When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The righteousness of the blameless directs their path, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness.
- KJV
- The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
- WEB
- The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
- ASV
- The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way; But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
- DARBY
- The righteousness of the perfect maketh plain his way; but the wicked falleth by his own wickedness.
- BLB
- The righteousness of a blameless one makes his way straight, and in his wickedness a wicked one will fall.
- ÅB
- Den ustraffeliges rettferdighet gjør hans vei jevn, men den ugudelige faller ved sin ugudelighet.
- OTB
- De skyldfries rettferdighet rydder deres vei, men de ugudelige snubler i sin egen ugudelighet.
- B1930
- Den ustraffeliges rettferdighet gjør hans vei jevn, men den ugudelige faller ved sin ugudelighet.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Read in contextPsalms 9:15–16
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Read in contextProverbs 3:6
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Read in contextEsther 7:3–10
Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:
Read in contextProverbs 1:31–32
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Read in contextMatthew 27:4–5
Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
Read in contextProverbs 11:3
The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
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