He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
He that walketh uprightly walketh surely. "Uprightly," "in integrity" or 'sincerity,' as David did (1 Kings 9:4). "Walketh surely;" safe from the reality and from the apprehension of danger. Hypocrites are in continual danger, and are in fear, of their secret wickedness becoming "known."
But he that perverteth his ways shall be known. He that takes tortuous, crooked ways, like a fox, to prevent himself from being tracked out, shall, with all his pains, be detected. However studiously he conceals his ways, he and they shall be brought to light for punishment (Proverbs 14:33; Ezekiel 19:7). With God to know sin (and He does know all things) is to punish it. The ungodly fancy the straightforward path the path of danger, and that by a crooked course they shall be safe; but the case is just the reverse. Maurer, after Rabbi Salomon, takes it, 'shall be made to know' by punishment (Judges 8:16).