Spreuken 28:18

18 Die oprecht wandelt, zal behouden worden; maar die zich verkeerdelijk gedraagt in twee wegen, zal in den enen vallen.

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Spreuken 28:18 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 28:18

Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved,
Or "be safe" F18 from those that seek his life, plot against him, shoot at him, as the wicked do at the upright in heart, but the Lord protects him; and it is even well with him in times of public calamities; the Lord has his chambers and hiding places for him; and he is safe from falling, as may be gathered from the opposite clause; for he walks surely, and is in the hands of Christ, and is kept by him from a final and total falling away: and he shall be saved also with an everlasting salvation; from sin, and all the effects of it; from the curse of the law, from wrath to come, from hell and damnation. Not that his upright walk is the cause of this; the moving cause of salvation is the grace of God; the procuring cause, our Lord Jesus Christ, the only Author of it: but this is a descriptive character of the persons that are and shall be saved; it is a clear case that such have the grace of God, and therefore shall have glory; (See Gill on Proverbs 10:9); but [he that is] perverse [in his] ways;
"in his two ways", as in ( Proverbs 27:6 ) ; or many ways, and all perverse and wicked: shall fall at once;
his destruction shall come suddenly upon him, when he is not aware of it, and when he cries, Peace, peace, to himself: or in one of them; in one or other of his perverse ways.


FOOTNOTES:

F18 (evwy) "erit salvus", Pagninus, Montanus, V. L. Mercerus, Cocceius, Gejerus.

Spreuken 28:18 In-Context

16 Een vorst, die van alle verstand gebrek heeft, is ook veelvoudig in verdrukkingen; maar die de gierigheid haat, zal de dagen verlengen.
17 Een mens, gedrukt om het bloed ener ziel, zal naar den kuil toevlieden; men ondersteune hem niet!
18 Die oprecht wandelt, zal behouden worden; maar die zich verkeerdelijk gedraagt in twee wegen, zal in den enen vallen.
19 Die zijn land bouwt, zal met brood verzadigd worden; maar die ijdele mensen volgt, zal met armoede verzadigd worden.
20 Een gans getrouw man zal veelvoudig zijn in zegeningen; maar die haastig is, om rijk te worden, zal niet onschuldig wezen.
The Dutch Staten Vertaling translation is in the public domain.