Proverbs 21:8
The way of a man who is vile [is] contrary, || And the pure—his work [is] upright.
Literal Standard Version
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 spoil of the wicked catches them, || Because they have refused to do judgment.
9Better to sit on a corner of the roof, || Than [with] a woman of contentions and a house of company.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5And YHWH sees that the wickedness of man [is] abundant in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [is] only evil every day;
Job 15:14What [is] man that he is pure, || And that he is righteous, one born of woman?
Proverbs 2:15Whose paths [are] crooked, || Indeed, they are perverted in their ways.
Proverbs 30:12A generation—pure in their own eyes, || But not washed from their own filth.
Ecclesiastes 9:3This [is] an evil among all that has been done under the sun, that one event [is] to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness [is] in their heart during their life, and after it—to the dead.
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.
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 →