Proverbs Chapter 11 verse 5 Holy Bible
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way; But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
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The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.
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The righteousness of the perfect maketh plain his way; but the wicked falleth by his own wickedness.
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The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
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The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
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The righteousness of the perfect maketh right his way, And by his wickedness doth the wicked fall.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - The perfect; the upright and honest. Vulgate, "simple;" Septuagint, "blameless." Shall direct - make straight or smooth - his way (Proverbs 3:6). The good man, not blinded by passion, follows a safe and direct path of life; but the wicked, led by his own evil propensious, and losing the light of conscience (John 11:10), stumbles and fails. Septuagint, "Righteousness cutteth straight (ὀρθοτομεῖ) blameless paths, but ungodliness walketh in iniquity." Ὀρθοτομέω occurs in Proverbs 3:6, and nowhere else in the Septuagiut. St. Paul adopts the word in 2 Timothy 2:15.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) Shall direct his way.--Or, make smooth, as Proverbs 3:6. The just man by his exact performance of all duty both towards God and man receives more and more light, and therefore continually sees more clearly how to avoid the difficulties that beset his path. The wicked darkens his conscience more and more by the commission of evil, till he stumbles as in the night (John 11:9), and at last falls, and rises not again.
