Proverbs 21:8
Froward [is] the way of a man who is vile, And the pure — upright [is] his work.
Young's Literal Translation
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 spoil of the wicked catcheth them, Because they have refused to do judgment.
9Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than [with] a woman of contentions and a house of company.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5And Jehovah seeth that abundant [is] the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;
Job 15:14What [is] man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?
Proverbs 2:15Whose paths [are] crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.
Proverbs 30:12A generation — pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.
Ecclesiastes 9:3This [is] an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event [is] to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness [is] in their heart during their life, and after it — unto the dead.
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.
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 →