8The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.


In Context

5 The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty.

6 A fortune made by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare.

7 The violence of the wicked will drag them away, for they refuse to do what is right.

8 The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

9 Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

10 The wicked man craves evil; his neighbor gets no mercy from him.

Proverbs 21:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:8The way of man [is] froward and strange: but [as for] the pure, his work [is] right.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:8The perverse way of a man is strange: but as for him that is pure, his work is right.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:8The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding crooked; But as for the pure, his work is right.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:8Very crooked is the way of a guilty man; but as for the pure, his work is upright.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:8The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding crooked: but as for the pure, his work is right.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:8The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:8The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:8Froward is the way of a man who is vile, And the pure — upright is his work.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:8The way of man is fraudulent and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.