Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The ways of the froward are strange; but the works of him that is clean, are right.
New American Standard Bible
But as for the pure, his conduct is upright.
King James Version
The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
Holman Bible
but the behavior of the innocent is upright.
International Standard Version
The conduct of a guilty man is perverse, but the behavior of the pure is upright.
A Conservative Version
The way of him who is laden with guilt is exceedingly crooked, but as for a pure man, his work is right.
American Standard Version
The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding crooked; But as for the pure, his work is right.
Amplified
The way of the guilty is [exceedingly] crooked,
But as for the pure, his conduct is upright.
Bible in Basic English
Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.
Darby Translation
Very crooked is the way of a guilty man; but as for the pure, his work is upright.
Julia Smith Translation
The way of man is crooked and strange: and the pure his work is right
King James 2000
The way of man is perverse and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Crooked is the way of a man and a foreigner, but the pure [is] upright [in] his conduct.
Modern King James verseion
The way of a guilty man is perverted; but the pure, his work is right.
NET Bible
The way of the guilty person is devious, but as for the pure, his way is upright.
New Heart English Bible
The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
The Emphasized Bible
Crooked is the way of a guilty man, but, as for the pure, straight is his dealing.
Webster
The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.
World English Bible
The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
Youngs Literal Translation
Froward is the way of a man who is vile, And the pure -- upright is his work.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 21:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Proverbs Of Solomon
7 The robberies of the ungodly shall be their own destruction; for they would not do the thing that was right. 8 The ways of the froward are strange; but the works of him that is clean, are right. 9 It is better to dwell in a corner under the housetop; than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Cross References
Proverbs 2:15
Whose ways are crooked, and their paths slanderous;
Genesis 6:5-6
And when the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was increased upon the earth, and that all the imagination and thoughts of his heart was only evil continually,
Genesis 6:12
And God looked upon the earth, and lo it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
Job 15:14-16
What is man, that he should be clean? What hath he, which is born of a woman, whereby he might be known to be righteous?
Psalm 14:2-3
The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that would understand and seek after God.
Proverbs 15:26
The LORD abhorreth the imaginations of the wicked; but pure words are pleasant to him.
Proverbs 30:12
The generation that think themselves clean, shall not be cleansed from their filthiness.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
Lo, this only have I found, that God made man just and right, but they seek divers subtleties.
Ecclesiastes 9:3
Among all things that come to pass under the Sun, this is a mystery, that it happeneth unto all alike. This is the cause also that the hearts of men are full of wickedness, and mad foolishness is in their hearts, as long as they live, until they die.
Daniel 12:10
and many shall be purified, cleansed and tried. But the ungodly shall live wickedly, and those wicked, as many as they be, shall have no understanding. As for such as have understanding, they shall regard it.
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Matthew 12:33
Either make the tree good, and his fruit good also, or else make the tree evil, and his fruit evil also. For the tree is known by his fruit.
Acts 15:9
And he put no difference between them and us, but with faith purified their hearts.
1 Corinthians 3:3
For ye are yet carnal. As long verily as there is among you envying, strife and dissension: are ye not carnal, and walk after the manner of men?
Ephesians 2:2-3
in the which, in time past, ye walked, according to the course of this world, and after the governor that ruleth in the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of unbelief,
Titus 1:15
Unto the pure, are all things pure: but unto them that are defiled, and unbelieving, is nothing pure: but even the very minds and consciences of them are defiled.
Titus 2:14
which gave himself for us, to redeem us from all unrighteousness, and to purge us a peculiar people unto himself, fervently given unto good works.
Titus 3:3
For we ourselves also were in times past, unwise, disobedient, deceived, in danger to lusts, and to divers manners of voluptuousness, living in maliciousness and envy, full of hate, hating one another.
Titus 3:5
not of the deeds of righteousness which we wrought, but of his mercy, he saved us, by the fountain of the new birth, and with the renewing of the holy ghost,
1 Peter 1:22-23
And forasmuch as ye have purified your souls through the spirit, in obeying the truth for to love brotherly without feigning, see that ye love one another with a pure heart, fervently:
1 John 2:29
If ye know that he is righteous, know also that all that work righteousness, are born of him.
1 John 3:3
And every man that hath this hope in him, purgeth himself, even as he is pure.