Proverbs 21:8
The way of the vngodly is frowarde and straunge: but of the pure man his worke is right.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
In Context
9It is better to dwel in a corner on the house toppe, then with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5But God sawe that the malice of man was great in the earth, and all the imagination of the thoughtes of his heart [was] only euyll euery day.
Proverbs 2:15Whose wayes are croked, and they frowarde in their pathes.
Proverbs 30:12There is a generation that thynke them selues cleane, and yet is not cleansed from their filthinesse.
Ecclesiastes 9:3Among all thinges that come to passe vnder the sunne, this is a miserie, that it happeneth vnto all alike: This is the cause also that the heartes of men are full of wickednesse, and madde foolishnesse is in their heartes as long as they liue, vntyll they dye.
Isaiah 59:8But the way of peace they know not, in their goinges is no equitie: their wayes are so crooked, that whosoeuer goeth therein knoweth of 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 →