17 Someone burdened by bloodguilt[a]
will be a fugitive until death.(A)
Let no one help him.(B)

18 The one who lives with integrity will be helped,
but one who distorts right and wrong[b]
will suddenly fall.(C)

19 The one who works his land
will have plenty of food,(D)
but whoever chases fantasies
will have his fill of poverty.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 28:17 Lit the blood of a person
  2. 28:18 Lit who is twisted regarding two ways

17 (A)A man burdened with bloodshed will flee into a pit;
Let no one help him.

18 Whoever walks blamelessly will be [a]saved,
But he who is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall.

19 (B)He who tills his land will have plenty of bread,
But he who follows frivolity will have poverty enough!

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 28:18 delivered