He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
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Gill's Exposition
He that walketh uprightly walketh surely,.... Or, "that walketh in perfection" (c) as the Targum. Not that walks without sin, no man does that; but that walks in the sincerity, integrity, and…
Barnes' Notes
Shall be known - literally, “shall be made to know” (see Jer 31:19; Jdg 8:16 margin) in the sense of exposed.
Matthew Henry
We are here told, and we may depend upon it, 1. That men's integrity will be their security: He that walks uprightly towards God and man, that is faithful to both, that designs as he ought and means…
Cambridge Bible
known i.e. found out. Comp. 1Ti 5:24; 1Ti 3:9. Some, however, render, "shall be punished," shall be taught by bitter experience his folly, comparing Jer 31:19, where the same Heb. word is rendered, "I…
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