“Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.”
— WEB
Proverbs 13:6
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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.
“Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.”
— KJV
“Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way; But wickedness overthroweth the sinner.”
— ASV
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Commentary
See here, 1. Saints secured from ruin. Those that are upright in their way, that mean honestly in all their actions, adhere conscientiously to the sacred and eternal rules of equity, and deal sincerely both with God and man, their integrity will keep them from the temptations of Satan, which shall not prevail over them, the reproaches and injuries of evil men, which shall not fasten upon them, to do them any real mischief, Psa 25:21. Hic murus aheneus esto, nil conscire sibi. Be this thy brazen bulwark of defence, Still to preserve thy conscious innocence. 2. Sinners secured for ruin. Those that are wicked, even their wickedness will be their overthrow at last, and they are held in the cords of it in the mean time. Are they corrected, destroyed? It is their own wickedness that corrects them, that destroys them; they alone shall bear it.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary (public domain)
A sentiment of frequent recurrence, that piety benefits and sin injures.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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