Proverbs 21:8
Perverse is the way of the man that is estranged [from goodness]; but as for the pure, his work is upright.
Leeser Tanakh
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 robbery of the wicked will drag them away; because they refuse to execute justice.
9It is better to dwell in a corner of a roof, than with a quarrelsome woman in a roomy house.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure? and that he who is born of woman should be declared righteous?
Proverbs 2:15Who as regardeth their paths are crooked, and froward in their tracks.
Proverbs 30:12There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, and yet is not washed [clean] of its filthiness.
Ecclesiastes 9:3This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one occurrence for all, and that also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and that madness is in their heart while they live, and after this they go to the dead.
Isaiah 59:8The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice on their tracks: their paths they have made unto themselves crooked; whosoever walketh 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 →