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Monday, August 11th, 2025
the Week of Proper 14 / Ordinary 19
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Literal Standard Version

Proverbs 2:15

Whose paths [are] crooked, || Indeed, they are perverted in their ways.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Falsehood;   Righteousness;   Wicked (People);   Wisdom;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Crookedness;   Duplicity;   Evil;   Pathway of Sin;   Simplicity-Duplicity;   Way;   The Topic Concordance - Crookedness;   Darkness;   Evil;   Straying;   Understanding;   Ways;   Wisdom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Marriage;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Sin Offering;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Path;   Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crooked;   Path;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Didache;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
whose paths are crooked,and whose ways are devious.
Hebrew Names Version
Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
King James Version
Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
English Standard Version
men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
New Century Version
What they do is wrong, and their ways are dishonest.
New English Translation
whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;
Amplified Bible
Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways;
New American Standard Bible
Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways;
World English Bible
Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
Geneva Bible (1587)
Whose wayes are crooked and they are lewde in their paths.
Legacy Standard Bible
Whose paths are crooked,And who are devious in their tracks;
Berean Standard Bible
whose paths are crooked, and whose ways are devious.
Contemporary English Version
They are dishonest themselves, and all they do is crooked.
Complete Jewish Bible
from those whose tracks are twisted and whose paths are perverse.
Darby Translation
whose paths are crooked, and who are perverted in their course:
Easy-to-Read Version
Their ways are crooked; they lie and cheat.
George Lamsa Translation
Men whose ways are crooked and whose paths are perverse.
Good News Translation
unreliable people who cannot be trusted.
Lexham English Bible
who are crooked in their ways, and devious in their paths;
Literal Translation
whose paths are crooked, who are devious in their tracks;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
whose wayes are croked, and their pathes slaunderous.
American Standard Version
Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
Bible in Basic English
Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Who are crooked in their ways, and perverse in their paths;
King James Version (1611)
Whose wayes are crooked, and they froward in their pathes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Whose wayes are croked, and they frowarde in their pathes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding;
English Revised Version
Who are crooked in their ways, and perverse in their paths:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
whose weies ben weywerd, and her goyingis ben of yuel fame.
Update Bible Version
Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
Webster's Bible Translation
Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:
New King James Version
Whose ways are crooked, And who are devious in their paths;
New Living Translation
Their actions are crooked, and their ways are wrong.
New Life Bible
His ways are not straight and are not good.
New Revised Standard
those whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Whose paths, are twisted, and they are tortuous in their tracks:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.
Revised Standard Version
men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
Young's Literal Translation
Whose paths [are] crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways;

Contextual Overview

10For wisdom comes into your heart, || And knowledge is pleasant to your soul, 11Thoughtfulness watches over you, || Understanding keeps you, 12To deliver you from an evil way, || From any speaking contrary things, 13Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, || To walk in ways of darkness, 14Who are rejoicing to do evil, || They delight in [the] contrariness of the wicked, 15Whose paths [are] crooked, || Indeed, they are perverted in their ways.16To deliver you from the strange woman, || From the stranger who has made her sayings smooth, 17Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, || And has forgotten the covenant of her God. 18For her house has inclined to death, || And her paths to Rephaim. 19None going in to her return, || Nor do they reach the paths of life.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 32:5, Psalms 125:5, Isaiah 30:8-13, Isaiah 59:8, Philippians 2:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:14 - General Psalms 10:5 - His Isaiah 40:4 - and the

Cross-References

Genesis 2:2
and God completes by the seventh day His work which He has made, and ceases by the seventh day from all His work which He has made.
Genesis 2:8
And YHWH God plants a garden in Eden, at the east, and He sets there the man whom He has formed;
Job 31:33
If I have covered my transgressions as Adam, || To hide my iniquity in my bosom,
Psalms 128:2
You surely eat the labor of your hands, || You [are] blessed, and good [is] to you.
Ephesians 4:28
whoever is stealing let him no longer steal, but rather let him labor, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Whose ways [are] crooked,.... Which swerve from and are not agreeably to the rule of the divine word, either the law of God or the Gospel of Christ; sin is an aberration, a straying from the rule of God's word, a transgression of his law; and a walk in it is unbecoming the Gospel of Christ; it has many serpentine windings and turnings in it; full of distortions and excursions, and many retrograde actions; see Psalms 125:5;

and [they] froward in their paths; declining here and there, sometimes going one way and sometimes another, but always following that which is evil, and resolute to continue therein.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The evil-doers here include not robbers and murderers only Proverbs 1:10-16, but all who leave the straight path and the open day for crooked ways, perverse counsels, deeds of darkness. “To delight etc.” Proverbs 2:14 is the lowest depth of all.


 
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