Whose ways are crooked, And who are devious in their paths;
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:
- BSB whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.
- 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.
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Cross-references · 6
- Ps 125:5But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
- Prov 21:8The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
- Phil 2:15that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
- Deut 32:5They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.
- Isa 59:8They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.
- Isa 30:8–13Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
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Wisdom personified, with God before creation and the agent of all things, anticipates Christ 'in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom' — the wisdom of God made flesh.
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