Proverbs 11:1-8

1 False balances are an abomination before the Lord: but a just weight is acceptable unto him.
2 Wherever pride enters, there will be also disgrace: but the mouth of the lowly meditates wisdom.
3 When a just man dies he leaves regret: but the destruction of the ungodly is speedy, and causes joy.
5 Righteousness traces out blameless paths: but ungodliness encounters unjust dealing.
6 The righteousness of upright men delivers them: but transgressors are caught in their own destruction.
7 At the death of a just man his hope does not perish: but the boast of the ungodly perishes.
8 A righteous man escapes from a snare, and the ungodly man is delivered up in his place.

Footnotes 5

  • [a]. See Appendix
  • [b]. the Alexandrine text reads: “The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the overthrow of the rebellious shall spoil them.”
  • [c]. Comp. Heb.
  • [d]. there is no verse 4. The Alexandrine text has this.
  • [e]. Gr. right divides.

The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.