Proverbs 2:13
Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
In Context
12To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;
14Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;
Cross References
Job 24:13These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof.
Psalms 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He hath ceased to be wise [and] to do good.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.
Isaiah 59:8The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace.
Ezekiel 33:12And thou, son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall he that is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sinneth.
Matthew 12:43But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and findeth it not.
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 →