The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

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The integrity of the upright will guide (A)them,
But the perversity of the unfaithful will destroy them.

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21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.

22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

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21 (A)For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord,
And He [a]ponders all his paths.
22 (B)His own iniquities entrap the wicked man,
And he is caught in the cords of his sin.
23 (C)He shall die for lack of instruction,
And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:21 observes, lit. weighs

Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

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(A)Righteousness guards him whose way is blameless,
But wickedness overthrows the sinner.

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The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

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The violence of the wicked will [a]destroy them,
Because they refuse to do justice.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:7 Lit. drag them away