The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way; But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
The integrity of the upright shall guide them; But the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he will direct thy paths.
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.
And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that evil was come upon them.
A man shall not be established by wickedness; But the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
A wicked man hardeneth his face; But as for the upright, he establisheth his ways.
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down.
And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.
Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way; But wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the righteous hath a refuge in his death.
The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; But the path of the upright is made a highway.
Whoso walketh uprightly shall be delivered; But he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
The way of the just is uprightness: thou that art upright dost direct the path of the just.
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.