Proverbs 2:15
Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
Proverbs 2:15 in other translations
| BSB | whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious. |
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| WEB | who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths, |
| ASV | Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths: |
| YLT | Whose paths are crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways. |
| DARBY | whose paths are crooked, and who are perverted in their course: |
| BBE | Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil: |
| Webster | Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: |
What does Proverbs 2:15 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 2:12-15
12-15. To deliver--as from great danger (Pr 6:5). way ... man--(Psa 1:1). froward things--perversity (Pr 6:14; 23:23), what is opposed to truth.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 2:10-22
If we are truly wise, we shall be careful to avoid all evil company and evil practices. When wisdom has dominion over us, then it not only fills the head, but enters into the heart, and will preserve, both against corruptions within and temptations without. The ways of sin are ways of darkness, uncomfortable and unsafe: what fools are those who leave the plain, pleasant, lightsome paths of uprightness, to walk in…
Proverbs 2:15 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 2:15
- Psalms 125:5
As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
- Proverbs 21:8
The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
- Philippians 2:15
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
- Deuteronomy 32:5
They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
- Isaiah 59:8
The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
- Isaiah 30:8-13
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord: Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. …
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Context
- Proverbs 2:14
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
- Proverbs 2:15
Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
- Proverbs 2:16
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
Proverbs 2:15 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Cuyas veredas son torcidas, y torcidos sus caminos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | dont les sentiers sont tortueux et qui s’égarent dans leurs voies; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | deren Pfade krumm sind, und die abbiegen in ihren Bahnen: |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | quorum viæ perversæ sunt, et infames gressus eorum. |