Proverbs 2:15

15 whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.

Proverbs 2:15 in Other Translations

KJV
15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
ESV
15 men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
NLT
15 Their actions are crooked, and their ways are wrong.
MSG
15 Traveling paths that go nowhere, wandering in a maze of detours and dead ends.
CSB
15 whose paths are crooked, and whose ways are devious.

Proverbs 2:15 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 2:15

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 ) ( Isaiah 59:8 ) ; 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.

Proverbs 2:15 In-Context

13 who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways,
14 who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
15 whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.
16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
17 who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.

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