Proverbs 21:8
The perverse way of a man is foreign. But whoever is pure: his work is upright.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
In Context
7The robberies of the impious will drag them down, because they were not willing to do judgment.
9It is better to sit in a corner of the attic, than with a contentious woman and in a shared house.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5Then God, seeing that the wickedness of men was great upon the earth and that every thought of their heart was intent upon evil at all times,
Job 15:14What is man that he should be immaculate, and that he should appear just, having been born of woman?
Proverbs 2:15Their ways are perverse, and their steps are infamous.
Proverbs 30:12There is a generation which seems pure to themselves, and yet they are not even washed from their filthiness.
Ecclesiastes 9:3This is a very great burden among all things that are done under the sun: that the same things happen to everyone. And when the hearts of the sons of men are filled with malice and contempt in their lives, afterwards they shall be dragged down to hell.
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 21:8
7 The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment. See here, 1. The nature of injustice. Getting money by lying ( v. 6 ) is no better than downright robbery. Cheating is stealing; you might as well pick a man's pocket as impose upon him by a lie in making a bargain, which he had no fence against but by not believing you; and it will be no excuse from the guilt of robbery to say that he might choose whether he would believe you, for that is a debt we should owe to all men. 2. The… Read the whole commentary →