Proverbs 11:5 · KJV
“The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. {direct: Heb. rectify}”
— Proverbs 11:5
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in {their own} naughtiness.
Proverbs 11 — Context
The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
4Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
5The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. {direct: Heb. rectify}
6The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in {their own} naughtiness.
7When a wicked man dieth, {his} expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust {men} perisheth.
Cross References
Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. {sins: Heb. sin}
Psalms 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.
Proverbs 11:3
The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
Esther 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:
Proverbs 1:31-32
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Proverbs 3:6
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Matthew 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}.
2 Samuel 17:23
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled {his} ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father. {followed: Heb. done} {put his...: Heb. gave charge concerning his house}