New Revised Standard Version
Righteousness guards one whose way is upright, but sin overthrows the wicked.

Contemporary English Version
Live right, and you are safe! But sin will destroy you.

New American Bible
Justice guards one who walks honestly, but sin leads the wicked astray.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Justice keepeth the way of the innocent: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

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

righteousness

Proverbs 11:3,5,6 Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall deliver from death. . . .

Psalm 15:2 He that walketh without blemish, and worketh justice:

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.

wickedness

Proverbs 5:22 He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.

Proverbs 21:12 The just considereth seriously the house of the wicked, that he may withdraw the wicked from evil.

2 Chronicles 28:23 Sacrificed victims to the gods of Damascus that struck him, and he said: The gods of the kings of Syria help them, and I will appease them with victims, and they will help me; whereas on the contrary they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

Psalm 140:11 A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth: evil shall catch the unjust man unto destruction.

the sinner