Proverbs 2:15
Their ways are perverse, and their steps are infamous.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
In Context
14who rejoice when they have done evil, and who exult in the most wicked things.
16So may you be rescued from the foreign woman, and from the outsider, who softens her speech,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:5They have sinned against him, and in their filth they are not his sons. They are a depraved and perverse generation.
Proverbs 21:8The perverse way of a man is foreign. But whoever is pure: his work is upright.
Isaiah 59:8They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their steps. Their paths have become crooked for them. Anyone who treads in them knows no peace.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 2:11-22
The Benefits Conferred by Wisdom. 10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; 11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: 12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; 13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; 14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; 15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: 16 To deliver thee from the strange… Read the whole commentary →