Proverbs 11:3 {4}
Good News Translation
If you are good, you are guided by honesty. People who can't be trusted are destroyed by their own dishonesty.

New Revised Standard Version
The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.

Contemporary English Version
If you do the right thing, honesty will be your guide. But if you are crooked, you will be trapped by your own dishonesty.

New American Bible
The honesty of the upright guides them; the faithless are ruined by their duplicity.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall deliver from death.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall deliver from death.

the integrity

Proverbs 11:5 The justice of the righteous shall deliver them: and the unjust shall be caught in their own snares.

Proverbs 13:6 Justice keepeth the way of the innocent: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

Psalm 25:21 The innocent and the upright have adhered to me: because I have waited on thee.

Psalm 26:1 Unto the end, a psalm for David. Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in my innocence: and I have put my trust in the Lord, and shall not be weakened.

John 7:17 If any man will do the will of him, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

the perverseness

Proverbs 21:7 The robberies of the wicked shall be their downfall, because they would not do judgment.

Proverbs 28:18 He that walketh uprightly, shall be saved: he that is perverse in his ways, shall fall at once.

Ecclesiastes 7:17 Be not overmuch wicked: and be not foolish, lest thou die before thy time.

Isaiah 1:28 And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed.

Context
Dishonest Scales
2The simplicity of the just shall guide them: and the deceitfulness of the wicked shall destroy them. 3Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall deliver from death.4The justice of the upright shall make his way prosperous: and the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.…
Cross References
Proverbs 2:22
My son, forget not my law, and let thy heart keep my commandments.

Proverbs 13:6
Justice keepeth the way of the innocent: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

Proverbs 19:3
The folly of a man supplanteth his steps: and he fretteth in his mind against God.

Proverbs 22:12
The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge: and the words of the unjust are overthrown.

Proverbs 11:2
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