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Proverbs 21:8

Proverbs 21:8

Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible · Matthew Henry (1662–1714) · Public Domain

This shows that as men are so is their way. 1. Evil men have evil ways.

If the man be froward, his way also is strange; and this is the way of

most men, such is the general corruption of mankind. They have all gone

aside (Ps. xiv. 2, 3); all flesh have perverted their way. But the

froward man, the man of deceit, that acts by craft and trick in all he

does, his way is strange, contrary to all the rules of honour and

honesty. It is strange, for you know not where to find him nor when you

have him; it is strange, for it is alienated from all good and

estranges men from God and his favour. It is what he behold afar off,

and so do all honest men. 2. Men that are pure are proved to be such by

their work, for it is right, it is just and regular; and they are

accepted of God and approved of men. The way of mankind in their

apostasy is froward and strange; but as for the pure, those that by the

grace of God are recovered out of that state, of which there is here

and there one, their work is right, as Noah's was in the old world,

Gen. vii. 1.

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