Proverbs 13:6 - Exposition

Righteousness keepeth (guardeth) him that is upright in the way ; literally, uprightness of way, abstract for concrete, as in the second member, sin for sinner. Those who are good and innocent in the walk of life are preserved from evil, moral and material. Wickedness overthroweth the sinner; literally, sin "Overthroweth," makes to slip. Vulgate, supplantet. The LXX . inverts the clause, "Sin makes the impious worthless ( φαύλους )" (see Proverbs 11:3 , Proverbs 11:5 , Proverbs 11:6 ). The verse is omitted in many Greek manuscripts.