Proverbs 21:8
Guilty people continually do what is evil; it is as though [MET] they are walking on a crooked road; but righteous/innocent people always do what is right.
Translation for Translators
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 6:5Yahweh saw that people on the earth had become very wicked, and that everything they thought about evil things continually.
Job 15:14“◄How can any person, including you, be sinless?/No person, including you, can be sinless.► [RHQ] ◄How can anyone on the earth be completely righteous?/No one on the earth can be completely righteous.► [RHQ]
Proverbs 2:15They ◄walk on crooked paths/always deceive others► and are always dishonest.
Proverbs 30:12Some people think that they are perfect, but really they have never been cleansed from their guilt for committing disgusting sins.
Ecclesiastes 9:3It seems wrong that the same thing happens to everyone on this earth: Everyone dies [EUP]. Furthermore, people’s inner beings are full of evil. People do foolish things while they are alive, and then they die and join those who are already dead.
Isaiah 59:8You do not know how to act peacefully or to treat others fairly. You always are ◄dishonest/deceiving others► [MET], and those who imitate your behavior never have any inner 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 →