Proverbs 2:13
Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
In Context
12To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,
14Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,
Cross References
Job 24:13They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths.
Psalms 36:3The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently — to do good.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked [is] as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.
Isaiah 59:8A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.
Ezekiel 33:12And thou, son of man, say unto the sons of thy people: The righteousness of the righteous doth not deliver him in the day of his transgression, And the wickedness of the wicked, He doth not stumble for it in the day of his turning from his wickedness, And the righteous is not able to live in it in the day of his sinning.
Matthew 12:43'And, when the unclean spirit may go forth from the man, it doth walk through dry places seeking rest, and doth not find;
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 →