Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
Parallel translations
- WEB You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.
- BSB From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways—until wickedness was found in you.
- NKJV You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, Till iniquity was found in you.
- NASB “You were blameless in your ways From the day you were created Until unrighteousness was found in you.
- NLT “You were blameless in all you did from the day you were created until the day evil was found in you.
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Quick answer
He was blameless from his creation until unrighteousness was found in him. The verse pinpoints sin as the cause of his ruin.
Overview
The king's initial integrity highlights that his downfall was not God's making but the entrance of iniquity. The phrase "until unrighteousness was found in you" marks the turning point from glory to guilt. This pattern, original goodness corrupted by sin, mirrors the human fall and underscores that judgment falls justly on chosen rebellion, not on the Creator who made all things good.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- 2 Pet 2:4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
- Ezek 28:17–18Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
- Rom 7:9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
- Gen 1:26–27And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- Ezek 28:3–6Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
- Ezek 28:12Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
- Ezek 27:3–4And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
- Lam 5:16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
- Isa 14:12How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
- Eccl 7:29Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
- Gen 1:31And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
- Gen 6:5–6And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
- Prov 14:34Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
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