'Perverse' in the Bible

and the messenger of Jehovah saith unto him, 'Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? lo, I -- I have come out for an adversary, for thy way hath been perverse before me,

It hath done corruptly to Him; Their blemish is not His sons', A generation perverse and crooked!

And the anger of Saul burneth against Jonathan, and he saith to him, 'Son of a perverse rebellious woman! have I not known that thou art fixing on the son of Jesse to thy shame, and to the shame of the nakedness of thy mother?

With the pure Thou shewest Thyself pure, And with the perverse Thou shewest Thyself a wrestler.

For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,

I -- I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,

If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! -- it declareth me perverse.

God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.

Only these are tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.

In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.

As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse.

And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.

Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?

With the pure Thou showest Thyself pure, And with the perverse showest Thyself a wrestler,

They search out perverse things, 'We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart are deep.

O my God, cause me to escape From the hand of the wicked, From the hand of the perverse and violent.

A perverse heart turneth aside from me, Wickedness I know not.

Turn aside from thee a froward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee,

In righteousness are all the sayings of my mouth, Nothing in them is froward and perverse.

An abomination to Jehovah are the perverse of heart, And the perfect of the way are His delight.

The perverse of heart findeth not good, And the turned in his tongue falleth into evil.

Better is the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse in his lips, who is a fool.

Thorns -- snares are in the way of the perverse, Whoso is keeping his soul is far from them.

Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.

Better is the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse of ways who is rich.

An abomination to the righteous is the perverse man, And an abomination to the wicked is the upright in the way!

A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.

A voice on high places is heard -- weeping, Supplications of the sons of Israel, For they have made perverse their way, They have forgotten Jehovah their God.

for ye have shewed yourselves perverse in your souls, for ye sent me unto Jehovah your God, saying, Pray for us unto Jehovah our God, and according to all that Jehovah our God saith, so declare to us, and we have done it;

Jehovah is righteous in her midst, He doth not do perverseness, Morning by morning His judgment he giveth to the light, It hath not been lacking, And the perverse doth not know shame.

And Jesus answering said, 'O generation, unstedfast and perverse, till when shall I be with you? till when shall I bear you? bring him to me hither;'

And Jesus answering said, 'O generation, unstedfast and perverse, till when shall I be with you, and suffer you? bring near hither thy son;'

Also with many more other words he was testifying and exhorting, saying, 'Be saved from this perverse generation;'

and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,