Proverbs 21:8
The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
Berean Standard Bible
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 violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.
9Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
Proverbs 2:15whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.
Proverbs 30:12There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
Ecclesiastes 9:3This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.
Isaiah 59:8The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know 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 →