Proverbs 11:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁵ The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ The righteousness of the blameless shall rectify and make plain their way and keep it straight, but the wicked shall fall by their own wickedness.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way; But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

Common English Bible

⁵ The righteousness of the innocent makes their path straight, but the wicked fall in their wickedness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ The justice of the simple shall direct his way. And the impious will fall in his impiety.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ The justice of the upright shall make his way prosperous: and the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.

Proverbs 11:5 Cross References

2 Samuel 17:23

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home, unto his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

Job 18:7

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down.

Proverbs 1:18

And these lay wait for their own blood, They lurk privily for their own lives.

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the upright shall guide them: But the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

Proverbs 12:3

A man shall not be established by wickedness: But the root of the righteous shall never be moved.

Proverbs 13:6

Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way: But wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing: But the righteous hath hope in his death.

Proverbs 15:19

The way of the sluggard is as an hedge of thorns: But the path of the upright is made an highway.

Proverbs 21:29

A wicked man hardeneth his face: But as for the upright, he ordereth his ways.

Proverbs 28:18

Whoso walketh uprightly shall be delivered: But he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

Proverbs 3:6

In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he shall direct thy paths.

Proverbs 5:22

His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.

Isaiah 26:7

The way of the just is uprightness: thou that art up right dost direct the path of the just.

Hosea 5:5

And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them.

Judges 20:41

And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.