Proverbs 11:5

The Scriptures 2009

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:23

And Aḥithophel saw that his advice was not followed, so he saddled his donkey, and rose up and went home to his house, to his city. Then he gave command to his house, and hanged himself, and died. And he was buried in his father’s burial-site.

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’ĕl shall witness to his face, and Yisra’ĕl and Ephrayim stumble in their crookedness. Yehuḏah shall also stumble with them.

Judges 20:41

And when the men of Yisra’ĕl turned back, the men of Binyamin were troubled, for they saw that calamity was close to them.