Proverbs 21:8
The way of some is peruerted and strange: but of the pure man, his worke is right.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 robberie of the wicked shall destroy them: for they haue refused to execute iudgement.
9It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top, then with a contentious woman in a wide house.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5When the Lord sawe that the wickednesse of man was great in the earth, and all the imaginations of the thoughtes of his heart were onely euill continually,
Job 15:14What is man, that he should be cleane? and he that is borne of woman, that he shoulde be iust?
Proverbs 2:15Whose wayes are crooked and they are lewde in their paths.
Proverbs 30:12There is a generation that are pure in their owne conceite, and yet are not washed from their filthinesse.
Ecclesiastes 9:3This is euill among all that is done vnder the sunne, that there is one condition to all, and also the heart of the sonnes of men is full of euill, and madnes is in their heartes whiles they liue, and after that, they goe to the dead.
Isaiah 59:8The way of peace they knowe not, and there is none equitie in their goings: they haue made them crooked paths: whosoeuer goeth therein, shall not knowe 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 →