Proverbs 21:8
To the froward God sends froward ways; for his works are pure and right.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
In Context
7Destruction shall lodge with the ungodly; for they refuse to do justly.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5And the Lord God, having seen that the wicked actions of men were multiplied upon the earth, and that every one in his heart was intently brooding over evil continually,
Job 15:14For who, being a mortal, is such that he shall be blameless? or, who that is born of a woman, that he should be just?
Proverbs 2:15whose paths are crooked, and their + 2:15 Lit. wheel tracks. Compare Heb 12:13. courses winding;
Proverbs 30:12A wicked generation judge themselves to be just, but do not cleanse their way.
Ecclesiastes 9:3There is this evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes, the heart of the sons of men is filled with evil, and madness is in their heart during their life, and after that they go to the dead.
Isaiah 59:8and the way of peace they know not, neither is there judgment in their ways; for their paths by which they go are crooked, and they know 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 →