Proverbs 21:8

“The way of man [is] froward and strange, etc.] Not the way of any and every man; not the way of righteous and good men, of believers in Christ; who know him, the way, and walk in him and after him, and being led by him; who have his spirit to be their guide, and do walk in his ways, and find pleasure in them; the way of such is not froward or perverse, but upright and even, and is not strange, for the Lord knows and approves of it: but the way of wicked and impure men, as may be learned from the opposition in the next clause; the way of unregenerate men, who are gone out of the good way, and turned to their own way, which is according to the course of the world, and after the prince of it,…”

“of man--any one; his way is opposed to truth, and also estranged from it. The pure proves himself such by his right conduct.”

“Or, “Perverse is the way of a sin burdened man.” return to 'Top of Page'”

“The way - Of every man by nature. Strange - Estranged from God. Right - But he whose heart is pure, his conversation is agreeable to it. Proverbs 21:10”

“21:8 The crooked path of foolishness ends with death; the straight road of wisdom leads to life.”

“way: Gen 6:5, Gen 6:6, Gen 6:12; Job 15:14-16; Psa 14:2, Psa 14:3; Ecc 7:29, Ecc 9:3; Co1 3:3; Eph 2:2, Eph 2:3; Tit 3:3 but: Pro 15:26, Pro 30:12; Dan 12:10; Mat 5:8, Mat 12:33; Act 15:9; Tit 1:15, Tit 2:14, Tit 3:5; Pe1 1:22, Pe1 1:23; Jo1 2:29, Jo1 3:3 Proverbs 21:9”

“8 Winding is the way of a man laden with guilt; But the pure - his conduct is right. Rightly the accentuation places together "the way of a man" as subject, and "winding" as predicate: if the poet had wished to say (Schultens, Bertheau) "one crooked in his way" (quoad viam), he would have contented himself with the phrase נחפּך דּרך. But, on the other hand, the accentuation is scarcely correct (the second Munach is a transformed Mugrash), for it interprets וזר as a second pred.; but וזר is adj. to אישׁ. As הפכפּך (synon. פּתלתּל, עקלקל) is a hapax leg., so also vazar, which is equivalent to (Arab.) mawzwr, crimine onustus, from wazria, crimen committere, properly to charge oneself with a…”