Proverbs 2:15
13 from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,
14 from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,
whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.
16 It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
17 who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.
- KJV
- Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
- WEB
- who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,
- ASV
- Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
- DARBY
- whose paths are crooked, and who are perverted in their course:
- BLB
- whose ways [are] crooked, and [who] are turning aside in their paths.
- ÅB
- som går på krokete stier og følger vrange veier.
- OTB
- Hvis veier er vridde og som er svikefulle i sine handlinger.
- B1930
- som går på krokete stier og følger vrange veier.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 125:5
But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
Read in contextProverbs 21:8
The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
Read in contextPhilippians 2:15
so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:5
His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.
Read in contextIsaiah 59:8
The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.
Read in contextIsaiah 30:8–13
Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.
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