Proverbs 21:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

Proverbs 21:8 —

Old words in this verse

froward: — stubborn, twisted, contrary.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 2:15
Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
Proverbs 30:12
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
Titus 1:15
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Proverbs 15:26
The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
1 Corinthians 3:3
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

Topics

Character Constancy Decision Depravity of Man Godliness Graces Holiness Integrity

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8)

This shows that as men are so is their way. 1. Evil men have evil ways. If the man be froward, his way also is strange; and this is the way of most men, such is the general corruption of mankind. They have all gone aside (Ps. 14:2, 3); all flesh have perverted their way. But the froward man, the man of deceit, that acts by craft and trick in all he does, his way is strange, contrary to all the rul…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. of man--any one; his way is opposed to truth, and also estranged from it. The pure proves himself such by his right conduct.