Thematic Bible: Frowardness


Thematic Bible




Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me. For I have kept the ways of Yahweh; I have not acted wickedly against my God. For all of his ordinances [were] before me, and I did not turn aside from his statutes. read more.
I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity. Yahweh has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness before his eyes. With the loyal, you act as loyal, and with the blameless, you show yourself blameless. With the pure, you show yourself pure, but with the crooked, you appear as a fool.

[He] is frustrating [the] devices of [the] crafty, and their hands do not achieve success. [He] is capturing [the] wise in their craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are rushed. In the daytime they meet [with] darkness, and they grope at noon as [in] the night.

Therefore Yahweh has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight. To [the] loyal you show yourself loyal. To [the] blameless you show yourself blameless. To [the] pure you show yourself pure. but to [the] wicked you show yourself shrewd.

for he who is perverse [is] an abomination of Yahweh, but those who are upright [are] his confidence. Verse ConceptsAbominationsBad InfluenceAbominations, To GodDeviousnessFriendship Kjv

Thorns [and] snares [are] in the way of the perverse; he who guards himself will keep away from them. Verse ConceptsThornsEvil AssociationsGod TrappingPitfalls

Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me. For I have kept the ways of Yahweh; I have not acted wickedly against my God. For all of his ordinances [were] before me, and I did not turn aside from his statutes. read more.
I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity. Yahweh has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness before his eyes. With the loyal, you act as loyal, and with the blameless, you show yourself blameless. With the pure, you show yourself pure, but with the crooked, you appear as a fool.

Therefore Yahweh has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight. To [the] loyal you show yourself loyal. To [the] blameless you show yourself blameless. To [the] pure you show yourself pure. but to [the] wicked you show yourself shrewd.

Discretion will watch over you; understanding will protect you, [in order] to deliver you from the way of evil, from a man who speaks devious things-- those who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in ways of darkness, read more.
those who are happy to do evil, [for] they delight in [the] deviousness of evil,

A person of violence will entice his neighbor and cause him to walk on a way [that is] not good. He who winks his eyes [does so in order] to plan perverse things; he who purses his lips will bring evil to pass.

The lips of the righteous know [the] acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked, the perverse. Verse ConceptsLipsSpeech, Positive Aspects OfObscenity

I, wisdom, live with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion. The fear of Yahweh [is] hatred of evil, pride, and arrogance and an evil way. And I hate a mouth of perversity.

The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but a tongue of perversity will be cut off. Verse ConceptsBad LanguageMouthsCursingSevering Body PartsThe TongueTogethernesscutting


He who is crooked of heart will not find goodness, and he who is perverse, by his tongue he will fall into calamity. Verse ConceptsCondemned HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedProverbsSpeech, Negative Aspects OfTonguePerversionTwisted Ways

Does not wisdom call, and understanding raise its voice? {Atop the heights} beside the road, at the crossroads she stands. Beside gates, before towns, [at the] entrance of doors, she cries out: read more.
"To you, O {people}, I call, and my cry is to the children of humankind. Learn prudence, O simple ones; fools, learn {intelligence}. Listen! For noble things I will speak, and upright things from the opening of my lips. My mouth will utter truth, and wickedness [is] an abomination to my lips. All sayings of my mouth [are] in righteousness; none of them are twisted and crooked.


Crooked is the way of a man and a foreigner, but the pure [is] upright [in] his conduct. Verse ConceptsInnocence, Teaching OnCharacter Of WickedDeviousnessTwisted WaysPure People