Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

For the wrong-hearted man is hated by the Lord, but he is a friend to the upright.

New American Standard Bible

For the devious are an abomination to the Lord;
But He is intimate with the upright.

King James Version

For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.

Holman Bible

for the devious are detestable to the Lord,
but He is a friend to the upright.

International Standard Version

Indeed, a perverse man is utterly disgusting to the LORD, but he takes the upright into his confidence.

A Conservative Version

For the perverse man is an abomination to LORD, but his friendship is with the upright.

American Standard Version

For the perverse is an abomination to Jehovah; But his friendship is with the upright.

Amplified


For the devious are repulsive to the Lord;
But His private counsel is with the upright [those with spiritual integrity and moral courage].

Darby Translation

For the perverse is an abomination to Jehovah; but his secret is with the upright.

Julia Smith Translation

For the perverse is an abomination of Jehovah: and his intercourse with the upright

King James 2000

For the perverse is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.

Lexham Expanded Bible

for he who is perverse [is] an abomination of Yahweh, but those who are upright [are] his confidence.

Modern King James verseion

For the crooked man is hateful to Jehovah, but His secret is with the righteous.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

for the LORD abhorreth the froward, but his secret is among the righteous.

NET Bible

for one who goes astray is an abomination to the Lord, but he reveals his intimate counsel to the upright.

New Heart English Bible

For the perverse is an abomination to the LORD, but his friendship is with the upright.

The Emphasized Bible

For, an abomination to Yahweh, is the tortuous man, but, with the upright, he is intimate.

Webster

For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.

World English Bible

For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

Youngs Literal Translation

For an abomination to Jehovah is the perverted, And with the upright is His secret counsel.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For the froward
לוּז 
Luwz 
Usage: 6

תּעבה תּועבה 
Tow`ebah 
Usage: 117

to the Lord

Usage: 0

but his secret
סוד 
Cowd 
Usage: 21

Context Readings

Role Of Wisdom In Creation And Society

31 Have no envy of the violent man, or take any of his ways as an example. 32 For the wrong-hearted man is hated by the Lord, but he is a friend to the upright. 33 The curse of the Lord is on the house of the evil-doer, but his blessing is on the tent of the upright.

Cross References

Psalm 25:14

The secret of the Lord is with those in whose hearts is the fear of him; he will make his agreement clear to them.

Proverbs 11:20

The uncontrolled are hated by the Lord, but those whose ways are without error are his delight

Job 29:4

As I was in my flowering years, when my tent was covered by the hand of God;

Psalm 18:26

He who is holy will see that you are holy; but to the man whose way is not straight you will be a hard judge.

Proverbs 6:6-19

Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.

Proverbs 14:10

No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.

Proverbs 17:15

He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.

Matthew 13:11

And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

Luke 16:15

And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.

John 14:21-24

He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

John 15:15

No longer do I give you the name of servants; because a servant is without knowledge of what his master is doing: I give you the name of friends, because I have given you knowledge of all the things which my Father has said to me.

Revelation 2:17

He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give of the secret manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name, of which no one has knowledge but he to whom it is given.

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