Proverbs 28:18 (BSB)

He who walks with integrity will be kept safe, but whoever is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall.

From Proverbs 28. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 28:18

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 28:18: Note, 1. Those that are honest are always safe. He that acts with sincerity, that speaks as he thinks, has a single eye, in every thing, to the glory of God and the good of his brethren, that would not, for a world, do an unjust thing if he knew it, that in all manner of conversation walks uprightly, he shall be saved hereafter.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 28:18: 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...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 28:18: (Compare Pro 10:9; Pro 17:20). Double dealing is eventually fatal.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 28:18: Pro 28:18 18 He who walketh blamelessly is helped, And he who is perverse in a double way suddenly perisheth. The lxx translate תמים by δικαίως (as the accusative of manner), Aquila and Theodotion by τέλειος; but it may also be translated τέλειον or τελειότητα, as the object accus. of Pro 2:7.