Verse List for PROV 21:8

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B I ◄ ← Prov 21:8 ↓ → ► ═ ©

Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) The paths of a guilty person are crooked, ⇔ ^ but well-behaved people act with decency.

OET-LV is_crooked the_way _of a _person guilty and_a _pure_person is_upright work _of_his.

ULT Perverse, is the way of a guilty man, ⇔ but the pure, one, upright, is his behavior.

UST Guilty people continually do what is wrong, ⇔  but innocent people do what is right.

BSB & MSB The way of a guilty man is crooked, ⇔  but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

OEB No OEB PROV book available

WEBBE & WMBB The way of the guilty is devious, ⇔  but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

NET The way of the guilty person is devious, ⇔ but as for the pure, his way is upright.

LSV The way of a man who is vile [is] contrary,
And the pure—his work [is] upright.

FBV Guilty people live crooked lives, but the innocent follow straight paths.

T4T ⇔  Guilty people continually do what is evil; it is as though [MET] they are walking on a crooked road; ⇔  but righteous/innocent people always do what is right.

LEB • Crooked is the way of a man and a foreigner,
• but the pure is upright in his conduct.

BBE Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.

Moff The insolent follow a crooked course: ⇔  the good man’s life is straight.

JPS The way of man is froward and strange; but as for the pure, his work is right.

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

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

YLT Froward [is] the way of a man who is vile, And the pure — upright [is] his work.

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

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

SLT The way of man is crooked and strange: and the pure his work is right.

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

KJB-1769 The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
(The way of man is froward/ornery_or_disobedient and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.)

KJB-1611 The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure; his worke is right.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps The way of the vngodly is frowarde and straunge: but of the pure man his worke is right.
(The way of the ungodly is froward/ornery_or_disobedient and straunge: but of the pure man his work is right.)

Gnva The way of some is peruerted and strange: but of the pure man, his worke is right.
(The way of some is perverted and strange: but of the pure man, his work is right.)

Cvdl The wayes of the frowarde are straunge, but ye workes of him yt is cleane, are right.
(The ways of the froward/ornery_or_disobedient are straunge, but ye/you_all works of him it is clean, are right.)

Wycl The weiward weie of a man is alien fro God; but the werk of hym that is cleene, is riytful.
(The wayward way of a man is alien/foreign(er) from God; but the work of him that is clean, is rightful.)

Luth Wer einen andern Weg gehet, der ist verkehrt; wer aber in seinem Befehl gehet, des Werk ist recht.
(Who a change way/path/road goes, the/of_the is wrong; who but in his command(n) goes, the work is right.)

ClVg Perversa via viri aliena est; qui autem mundus est, rectum opus ejus.[fn]
(Perverse way/road men foreign it_is; who/which however world it_is, rightness/accuracy work/need his/her.)

UHB הֲפַכְפַּ֬ךְ דֶּ֣רֶךְ אִ֣ישׁ וָזָ֑ר וְ֝⁠זַ֗ךְ יָשָׁ֥ר פָּעֳלֽ⁠וֹ׃ ‡

BrLXX Πρὸς τοὺς σκολιοὺς σκολιὰς ὁδοὺς ἀποστέλλει ὁ Θεὸς, ἁγνὰ γὰρ καὶ ὀρθὰ τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ.

BrTr To the froward God sends froward ways; for his works are pure and right.