Proverbs 21:8
The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
World English Bible British
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 drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.
9It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
Job 15:14What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Proverbs 2:15who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,
Proverbs 30:12There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.
Ecclesiastes 9:3This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Isaiah 59:8They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know 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 →