Proverbs 21:8
The way of the guilty is devious, 2 but the conduct of the innocent is upright. 1
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In The King James Version
The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 6:5Adonai saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
Proverbs 2:15who are crooked in their ways, 2 and wayward in their paths: 1
Proverbs 30:12There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, 2 yet are not washed from their filthiness. 1
Isaiah 59:8They don’t know the way of peace; + 59:8. (7-8) Quoted in Rom 3:15-17 2 and there is no mishpat ·justice· in their ways. 1 They have made crooked paths for themselves; 2 whoever goes in them does not know peace. 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 →