Proverbs - 2:15

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15 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:

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Explanation and meaning of Proverbs 2:15.

Differing Translations

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Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.
whose paths are crooked, and who are perverted in their course:
Who are crooked in their ways, and perverse in their paths:
Whose paths are crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.
Whose ways are crooked, and they fraudulent in their paths:
Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:
Their ways are perverse, and their steps are infamous.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

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 Psalm 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.

crooked--tortuous, unprincipled.
froward--literally, (they) are going back, not only aside from right, but opposite to it.

Crooked - Who swerve from the straight way of God's law, and have windings and turnings, to escape conviction.

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