Proverbs 21:8
The perverse way of a man is strange: but as for him that is pure, his work is right.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 wicked shall be their downfall, because they would not do judgment.
9It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling women, and in a common house.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,
Job 15:14What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?
Proverbs 2:15Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.
Proverbs 30:12A generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.
Ecclesiastes 9:3This is a very great evil among all things that are done under the sun, that the same things happen to all men: whereby also the hearts of the children of men are filled with evil, and with contempt while they live, and afterwards they shall be brought down to hell.
Isaiah 59:8They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their steps: their paths are become crooked to them, every one that treadeth in them, knoweth 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 →