Proverbs 2:15

THE MESSAGE

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

¹⁶Wise friends will rescue you from the Temptress— that smooth-talking Seductress Who's faithless to the husband she married years ago, never gave a second thought to her promises before God. Her whole way of life is doomed; every step she takes brings her closer to hell. No one who joins her company ever comes back, ever sets foot on the path to real living. ²⁰So—join the company of good men and women, keep your feet on the tried-and-true paths. It's the men who walk straight who will settle this land, the women with integrity who will last here. The corrupt will lose their lives; the dishonest will be gone for good.

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
By the seventh day God had finished his work. On the seventh day he rested from all his work. God blessed the seventh day. He made it a Holy Day Because on that day he rested from his work, all the creating God had done. This is the story of how it all started, of Heaven and Earth when they were created.

Genesis 2:8
Then God planted a garden in Eden, in the east. He put the Man he had just made in it. God made all kinds of trees grow from the ground, trees beautiful to look at and good to eat. The Tree-of-Life was in the middle of the garden, also the Tree-of-Knowledge-of-Good-and-Evil.

Ephesians 4:28
Did you use to make ends meet by stealing? Well, no more! Get an honest job so that you can help others who can't work.

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.