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Proverbs 21:8

8 The way of a guilty man is acrooked,

But as for the pure, his conduct is upright.

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Proverbs 21:8 — The New International Version (NIV)

The way of the guilty is devious,

but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

Proverbs 21:8 — English Standard Version (ESV)

The way of the guilty is crooked,

but the conduct of the pure is upright.

Proverbs 21:8 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

The way of man is froward and strange:

But as for the pure, his work is right.

Proverbs 21:8 — New Living Translation (NLT)

The guilty walk a crooked path;

the innocent travel a straight road.

Proverbs 21:8 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

The way of a guilty man is perverse;

But as for the pure, his work is right.

Proverbs 21:8 — New Century Version (NCV)

Guilty people live dishonest lives,

but honest people do right.

Proverbs 21:8 — American Standard Version (ASV)

The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding crooked;

But as for the pure, his work is right.

Proverbs 21:8 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

Very crooked is the way of a guilty man; but as for the pure, his work is upright.

Proverbs 21:8 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

The way of a guilty person is crooked, 

but the behavior of those who are pure is moral. 

Proverbs 21:8 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

A guilty man’s conduct is crooked,

but the behavior of the innocent is upright.

Proverbs 21:8 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

The way of the guilty is crooked,

but the conduct of the pure is right.

Proverbs 21:8 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

Crooked is the way of a man and a foreigner,

but the pure is upright in his conduct.

Proverbs 21:8 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

The path of those who are guilty is crooked.

But the conduct of those who are not guilty is honest.


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