Proverbs 21:8
The way of a guilty person is crooked, 1 but the one who is pure does what is right. 1
Unlocked Literal 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 wicked will drag them away, 1 for they refuse to do what is just. 1
9It is better to live on a corner of the roof 1 than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife. 1
Cross References
Genesis 6:5Yahweh saw that the wickedness of mankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.
Job 15:14What is man that he should be clean? 1 What is he who is born of a woman that he should be righteous? 1
Proverbs 2:15They follow crooked paths, 1 and using deception they hide their tracks. 1
Proverbs 30:12There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, 1 and yet they are not washed of their filth. 1
Ecclesiastes 9:3There is an evil fate for everything that is done under the sun, the same event happens to them all. The hearts of human beings are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live. So after that they go to the dead.
Isaiah 59:8The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths. 1 They have made crooked paths; whoever travels these paths 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 →