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New International Version (?½1984)
He whose walk is blameless is kept safe, but he whose ways are perverse will suddenly fall.

New Living Translation (?½2007)
The blameless will be rescued from harm, but the crooked will be suddenly destroyed.

English Standard Version (?½2001)
Whoever walks in integrity will be delivered, but he who is crooked in his ways will suddenly fall.

New American Standard Bible (?½1995)
He who walks blamelessly will be delivered, But he who is crooked will fall all at once.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (?½2010)
He that walks without blemish will be redeemed and he that perverts his ways will fall into a pit.

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Clarke’s Commentary on the Bible

Shall fall at once – Shall fall without resource, altogether.

Wesley’s Notes

28:18 At once – Once for all; so he shall never rise more.

Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary

28:18. Uprightness will give men holy security in the worst times; but the false and dishonest are never safe. 19. Those who are diligent, take the way to live comfortably. 20. The true way to be happy, is to be holy and honest; not to raise an estate suddenly, without regard to right or wrong. 21. Judgment is perverted, when any thing but pure right is considered. 22. He that hastens to be rich, never seriously thinks how quickly God may take his wealth from him, and leave him in poverty. 23. Upon reflection, most will have a better opinion of a faithful reprover than of a soothing flatterer.

Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved, Or “be safe” (r) 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.

(r) “erit salvus”, Pagninus, Montanus, V. L. Mercerus, Cocceius, Gejerus.

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