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 himself, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
The integrity of the upright shall guide them: But the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he shall direct thy paths.
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: 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 directeth his way.
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down.
And they lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.
Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: But wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: But the righteous hath hope in his death.
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: But the way of the righteous is made plain.
Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: But he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.