Proverbs 21:8
Very crooked is the way of a guilty man; but as for the pure, his work is upright.
Darby Translation
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 devastation of the wicked sweepeth them away, because they refuse to do what is right.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of Man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continually.
Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Proverbs 2:15whose paths are crooked, and who are perverted in their course:
Proverbs 30:12there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness;
Ecclesiastes 9:3This is an evil among all that is done under the sun, that one thing befalleth all: yea, also the heart of the children of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live; and after that, [they have to go] to the dead.
Isaiah 59:8the way of peace they know not, and there is no judgment in their goings; they have made their paths crooked: whoso goeth therein knoweth not 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 →