Proverbs 2:13
who forsake the paths of uprightness,to walk in the ways of darkness;
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
In Context
12to deliver you from the way of evil,from the men who speak perverse things;
14who rejoice to do evil,and delight in the perverseness of evil;
Cross References
Job 24:13"These are of those who rebel against the light.They do not know its ways,nor abide in its paths.
Psalms 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit.He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is like darkness.They do not know what they stumble over.
Isaiah 59:8The way of peace they do not know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.
Ezekiel 33:12"You, son of man, tell the children of your people, 'The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his disobedience; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he who is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins.'
Matthew 12:43But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and does not find it.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 2:11-22
The Benefits Conferred by Wisdom. 10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; 11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: 12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; 13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; 14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; 15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: 16 To deliver thee from the strange… Read the whole commentary →