The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them - safely, by God's grace (), though the midst of stumbling-blocks and dangers, to the heavenly city of habitation ().

But the perverseness of transgresssors shall destroy them - in contrast to the safe 'guiding' of the upright by God, through their integrity (). Men fancy that a crooked, compromising, time-serving policy is the path of safety. It is really the path to 'destruction.'

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