Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Proverbs 21:8
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Berean Standard Bible
The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
King James Version
The way of man [is] froward and strange: but [as for] the pure, his work [is] right.
World English Bible
The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
American Standard Version
The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding crooked; But as for the pure, his work is right.
Berean Literal Bible
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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
Proverbs 21
6 Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.
7 The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.
8 The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
9 Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
10 The soul of the wicked man craves evil; his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.
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