Proverbs 8:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.

Proverbs 8:8 —

Old words in this verse

froward: — stubborn, twisted, contrary.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 7:46
The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.
Psalms 12:6
The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Proverbs 8:13
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Isaiah 63:1
Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
Deuteronomy 32:5
They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 1-11)

The will of God revealed to us for our salvation is here largely represented to us as easy to be known and understood, that none may have an excuse for their ignorance or error, and as worthy to be embraced, that none may have an excuse for their carelessness and unbelief. I. The things revealed are easy to be known, for they belong to us and to our children (Deut. 29:29), and we need not soar up…

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

(vv. 8)

8. in righteousness--or, “righteous” (Psa 9:8,11:7). froward--literally, “twisted,” or contradictory, that is, to truth.