Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
He who walks in his uprightness fears LORD, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.
New American Standard Bible
But he who is
King James Version
He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
Holman Bible
but the one who is devious in his ways despises Him.
International Standard Version
Someone whose conduct is upright fears the LORD, but whoever is devious in his ways despises him.
American Standard Version
He that walketh in his uprightness feareth Jehovah; But he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
Amplified
He who walks in uprightness [reverently] fears the Lord [and obeys and worships Him with profound respect],
But he who is devious in his ways despises Him.
Bible in Basic English
He who goes on his way in righteousness has before him the fear of the Lord; but he whose ways are twisted gives him no honour.
Darby Translation
He that walketh in his uprightness feareth Jehovah; but he that is perverted in his ways despiseth him.
Julia Smith Translation
He going in his uprightness will fear Jehovah: and he perverted in his ways, despised him.
King James 2000
He that walks in his uprightness fears the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despises him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He who walks in uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is devious [in] his ways displeases him.
Modern King James verseion
He who walks in his uprightness fears Jehovah, but he who is perverse in his ways despises Him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Whoso feareth the LORD, walketh in the right path: and regardeth not him that abhorreth the ways of the LORD.
NET Bible
The one who walks in his uprightness fears the Lord, but the one who is perverted in his ways despises him.
New Heart English Bible
He who walks in his uprightness fears the LORD, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.
The Emphasized Bible
He that walketh in his uprightness, is one who revereth Yahweh, but, he that is crooked in his way, is one who despiseth him.
Webster
He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
World English Bible
He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.
Youngs Literal Translation
Whoso is walking in his uprightness is fearing Jehovah, And the perverted in his ways is despising Him.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 14:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
1 Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish woman plucks it down with her own hands. 2 He who walks in his uprightness fears LORD, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him. 3 In the mouth of a fool is a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
Cross References
Proverbs 28:6
Better is the poor man who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in [his] ways, though he be rich.
1 Kings 3:6
And Solomon said, Thou have shown to thy servant David my father great loving kindness, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee. And thou have kept for him this great
Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was perfect and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
Job 12:4
I am as a man who is a laughing-stock to his neighbor. I who called upon God, and he answered. The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
Job 28:28
And to man he said, Behold, the fear of LORD, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.
Psalm 25:21
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for thee.
Psalm 112:1
Praise ye LORD. Blessed is the man who fears LORD, who delights greatly in his commandments.
Psalm 123:3-4
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Proverbs 2:15
who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,
Proverbs 11:12
He who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.
Proverbs 16:17
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.
Proverbs 19:1
Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
[This is] the end of the matter, all has been heard: Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole of man.
Malachi 2:5-6
My covenant of life and peace was with him. And I gave them to him that he might fear, and he feared me, and stood in awe of my name.
Luke 10:16
He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.
Luke 16:14
And the Pharisees, being lovers of money, heard all these things, and they sneered him.
Acts 9:31
Indeed therefore the congregations throughout the whole of Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being edified. And, going in the fear of the Lord and in the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.
Acts 10:22
And they said, Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man, and fearing God, and being well testified by the whole nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy agent to summon thee to his house, and to hear sayings from thee.
Acts 10:35
but in every nation, he who fears him, and works righteousness, is acceptable to him.
Romans 2:4-5
Or do thou despise the wealth of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God guides thee to repentance?
2 Timothy 3:2-3
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, impious,