Proverbs 11:5 - The Scriptures 1998

⁵ The righteousness of the perfect Makes his way straight, But by his own wrongness the wrong one falls.

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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.

Proverbs 11:5 Cross References

2 Samuel 17:23

And Aḥ

Job 18:7

The steps of his strength are impeded, and his own counsel overthrows him.

Proverbs 1:18

But they lie in wait for their own blood, They ambush their own lives.

Proverbs 11:3

The integrity of the straight ones guides them, But the slipperiness of the treacherous destroys them.

Proverbs 12:3

A man is not established by wrongness, But the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

Proverbs 13:6

Righteousness watches over him who is perfect in the way, But wrongness overthrows the sinner.

Proverbs 14:32

By his own evildoing the wrong is thrust down, But the righteous has a refuge in his death.

Proverbs 15:19

The way of a lazy one is like a hedge of thorns, But the way of the straight is a highway.

Proverbs 21:29

A wrong man hardens his face, But as for the straight, he establishes his way.

Proverbs 28:18

He who walks blamelessly is saved, But the perverted of ways falls at once.

Proverbs 3:6

Know Him in all your ways, And He makes all your paths straight.

Proverbs 5:22

The wrong one is entrapped In his own crookednesses, And he is caught in the cords of his sin.

Isaiah 26:7

The path of the righteous is uprightness; O upright One, You weigh the course of the righteous.

Hosea 5:5

“And the Excellency of Yisra’ĕ

Judges 20:41

And when the men of Yisra’ĕ