whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.
Parallel translations
- WEB who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:
- KJV Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
- NKJV Whose ways are crooked, And who are devious in their paths;
- NASB Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways;
- NLT Their actions are crooked, and their ways are wrong.
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Quick answer
Their ways are crooked and their paths devious. It matters because it sums up the twisted character of those wisdom rescues us from.
Overview
The description of evil men concludes with crookedness and waywardness, the opposite of the straight paths God gives the wise (3:6). Their entire manner of life is bent away from truth. Wisdom delivers the believer from being entangled in such corruption.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Ps 125:5But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
- Prov 21:8The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
- Phil 2:15so 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
- Deut 32:5His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.
- Isa 59:8The 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.
- Isa 30:8–13Go 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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