Proverbs 21:8
The derech of the guilty ish is hafachpach (crooked, tortuous), 1 but as for the pure, his conduct is yashar (right). 1
Orthodox Jewish 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 resha'im shall drag them away; 1 because they refuse to do mishpat (justice). 1
Cross References
Genesis 6:5And Hashem saw that the wickedness of HaAdam was great in ha'aretz and that every yetzer (inclination) of the machshevot (thoughts) of his lev was only rah (evil) continually. + 6:5 Ro 7:18
Job 15:14What is enosh, that he should be pure [in the sight of Hashem]? 1 And he which is born of an isha, that yitzdak (he should be in the right)? 1
Proverbs 2:15Whose orkhot (paths) are crooked ones, 1 and they are devious in their ma'agalot (paths). 1
Proverbs 30:12There is a dor (generation) that is tahor (pure) in its own eynayim, 1 and yet is not washed from its filthiness. 1
Ecclesiastes 9:3This is a rah among all things that are done under the shemesh, that there is one mikreh (fortune) unto all; yea, also the lev of the bnei haAdam is full of rah, and holelot (madness) is in their lev while they live, and after that they go to the mesim.
Isaiah 59:8Of the Derech Shalom they have no da'as; 1 and there is no mishpat (justice) in their circuits; 1 they have made themselves crooked roads; 1 whosoever walketh thereon shall not know shalom. 1
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 →