Proverbs 2:13
Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, || To walk in ways of darkness,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
In Context
12To deliver you from an evil way, || From any speaking contrary things,
14Who are rejoicing to do evil, || They delight in [the] contrariness of the wicked,
Cross References
Job 24:13They have been those rebelling against light, || They have not discerned His ways, || Nor abided in His paths.
Psalms 36:3The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and deceit, || He ceased to act prudently—to do good.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked [is] as darkness, || They have not known at what they stumble.
Isaiah 59:8They have not known a way of peace, || And there is no judgment in their paths, || They have made their paths perverse for themselves, || None treading in it has known peace.
Ezekiel 33:12And you, son of man, say to the sons of your people: The righteousness of the righteous does not deliver him in the day of his transgression, || And the wickedness of the wicked, || He does not stumble for it in the day of his turning from his wickedness, || And the righteous is not able to live in it in the day of his sinning.
Matthew 12:43And when the unclean spirit may go forth from the man, it walks through dry places seeking rest and does not find;
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 →