2 Samuel 22:27
With the pure you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
In Context
28You will save the afflicted people, but your eyes are on the arrogant, that you may bring them down.
Cross References
Exodus 18:11Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”
Leviticus 26:24then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.
Psalms 18:26With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
Isaiah 45:9Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands’?
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 22:3-51
David's Song of Praise. ( b. c. 1020.) 1 And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: Observe here, I. That it has often been the lot of God's people to have many enemies, and to be in imminent danger of falling into their hands. David was a man after God's heart, but not after men's heart: many were those that hated him, and sought his ruin; Saul is particularly named, either, 1. As distinguished… Read the whole commentary →