Proverbs 2:15

Revised Standard Version

men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
whose paths are crooked,and whose ways are devious.

Hebrew Names Version
Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:

King James Version
Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

English Standard Version
men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.

New Century Version
What they do is wrong, and their ways are dishonest.

New English Translation
whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;

Amplified Bible
Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways;

New American Standard Bible
Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways;

World English Bible
Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:

Geneva Bible (1587)
Whose wayes are crooked and they are lewde in their paths.

Legacy Standard Bible
Whose paths are crooked,And who are devious in their tracks;

Berean Standard Bible
whose paths are crooked, and whose ways are devious.

Contemporary English Version
They are dishonest themselves, and all they do is crooked.

Complete Jewish Bible
from those whose tracks are twisted and whose paths are perverse.

Darby Translation
whose paths are crooked, and who are perverted in their course:

Easy-to-Read Version
Their ways are crooked; they lie and cheat.

George Lamsa Translation
Men whose ways are crooked and whose paths are perverse.

Good News Translation
unreliable people who cannot be trusted.

Lexham English Bible
who are crooked in their ways, and devious in their paths;

Literal Translation
whose paths are crooked, who are devious in their tracks;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
whose wayes are croked, and their pathes slaunderous.

American Standard Version
Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:

Bible in Basic English
Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Who are crooked in their ways, and perverse in their paths;

King James Version (1611)
Whose wayes are crooked, and they froward in their pathes.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Whose wayes are croked, and they frowarde in their pathes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding;

English Revised Version
Who are crooked in their ways, and perverse in their paths:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
whose weies ben weywerd, and her goyingis ben of yuel fame.

Update Bible Version
Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:

Webster's Bible Translation
Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:

New King James Version
Whose ways are crooked, And who are devious in their paths;

New Living Translation
Their actions are crooked, and their ways are wrong.

New Life Bible
His ways are not straight and are not good.

New Revised Standard
those whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Whose paths, are twisted, and they are tortuous in their tracks:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.

Young's Literal Translation
Whose paths [are] crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways;

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; ¹¹ discretion will watch over you; understanding will guard you; ¹² delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech, ¹³ who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, ¹⁴ who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil; ¹⁵ men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways. ¹⁶ You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words, ¹⁷ who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; ¹⁸ for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the shades; ¹⁹ none who go to her come back nor do they regain the paths of life.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 32:5, Psalms 125:5, Isaiah 30:8-13, Isaiah 59:8, Philippians 2:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 20:14 - General Psalms 10:5 - His Isaiah 40:4 - and the

Cross-References

Genesis 2:2
And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

Genesis 2:8
And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Job 31:33
if I have concealed my transgressions from men, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom,

Psalms 128:2
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.

Ephesians 4:28
Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his hands, so that he may be able to give to those in need.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Whose ways [are] crooked,.... Which swerve from and are not agreeably to the rule of the divine word, either the law of God or the Gospel of Christ; sin is an aberration, a straying from the rule of God's word, a transgression of his law; and a walk in it is unbecoming the Gospel of Christ; it has many serpentine windings and turnings in it; full of distortions and excursions, and many retrograde actions; see Psalms 125:5;

and [they] froward in their paths; declining here and there, sometimes going one way and sometimes another, but always following that which is evil, and resolute to continue therein.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The evil-doers here include not robbers and murderers only Proverbs 1:10-16, but all who leave the straight path and the open day for crooked ways, perverse counsels, deeds of darkness. “To delight etc.” Proverbs 2:14 is the lowest depth of all.