Proverbs 13 · Verse 6

Proverbs 13:6

Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

Proverbs 13:6, King James Version

Proverbs 13:6 in other translations

BSB	Righteousness guards the man of integrity, but wickedness undermines the sinner.
WEB	Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
ASV	Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way; But wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
YLT	Righteousness keepeth him who is perfect in the way, And wickedness overthroweth a sin offering.
DARBY	Righteousness preserveth him that is perfect in the way; but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
BBE	Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.
Webster	Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

6. A sentiment of frequent recurrence, that piety benefits and sin injures.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

An honest desire to do right, preserves a man from fatal mistakes, better than a thousand fine-drawn distinctions.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

צְ֭דָקָהTze.da.kahrighteousnessH6666

תִּצֹּ֣רti.Tzorit preservesH5341

תָּם\־tom-integrity ofH8537

דָּ֑רֶךְDa.rekhwayH1870

וְ֝רִשְׁעָ֗הve.rish.'Ahand wickednessH7564

תְּסַלֵּ֥ףte.sa.Lefit subvertsH5557

חַטָּֽאת\׃cha.TatsinH2403

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Proverbs 11:3
The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
Proverbs 11:5-6
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
Psalms 25:21
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
Psalms 140:11
Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Proverbs 21:12
The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.
Psalms 15:2
He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
Psalms 26:1
A Psalm of David. Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the Lord; therefore I shall not slide.
Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
2 Chronicles 28:23
For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Righteousness.
11:3,5,6; Ps 15:2; 25:21; 26:1
wickedness.
5:22; 21:12; 2Ch 28:23; Ps 140:11
the sinner. Heb. sin.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Proverbs 13:5
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
Proverbs 13:6
Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Proverbs 13:7
There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	La justicia guarda al de perfecto camino: mas la impiedad trastornará al pecador.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	La justice garde celui qui est intègre dans sa voie, mais la méchanceté renverse le pécheur.
German Elberfelder 1871	Die Gerechtigkeit behütet den im Wege Vollkommenen, und die Gesetzlosigkeit kehrt den Sünder um.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Justitia custodit innocentis viam, impietas autem peccatorem supplantat.