Whoever walks uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
Whoever walks uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
Whoso walketh uprightly shall be delivered; But he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
He whose ways are upright will be safe, but sudden will be the fall of him whose ways are twisted.
He who walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
Whoso walketh uprightly shall be delivered: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
Shall fall at once - Shall fall without resource, altogether.
In his ways - Rather "in his double ways" (as in Proverbs 28:6). The evil of vacillation rather than that of craft, the want of the one guiding principle of right, is contrasted with the straightforwardness of the man that "walketh uprightly."
Shall fall at once - Better, shall fall in one of them (his ways). The attempt to combine incompatibilities is sure to fail. Men cannot serve God and Mammon.
28:18 At once - Once for all; so he shall never rise more.