Proverbs 2:15
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;
Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth 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
As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
Read in contextProverbs 21:8
The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
Read in contextPhilippians 2:15
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:5
They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
Read in contextIsaiah 59:8
The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
Read in contextIsaiah 30:8–13
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
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