Psalm 18:26
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New International Version (© 2011)
to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the devious you show yourself shrewd.

King James Bible
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.

American Standard Version
With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.

Young's Literal Translation
With the pure Thou showest Thyself pure, And with the perverse showest Thyself a wrestler,

Psalm 18:26 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

With the froward - עקש ikkesh, the perverse man; he that is crooked in his tempers and ways.

Thou wilt show thyself froward - תתפתל tithpattal, thou wilt set thyself to twist, twine, and wrestle. If he contend, thou wilt contend with him. Thou wilt follow him through all his windings; thou wilt trace him through all his crooked ways; untwist him in all his cunning wiles; and defeat all his schemes of stubbornness, fraud, overreaching, and deceit.

My old Psalter has, With the wiked thow sal be wike. Here the term wicked is taken in its true original sense, crooked, or perverse. With the wiked, the perverse, thou wilt show thyself wike, i.e., perverse; from to draw back, to slide. As he draws back from thee, thou wilt draw back from him. It may, as before intimated, come from to seek for enchantments; leaving God, and going to devils; to act like a witch: but here it must mean as above. The plain import is, "If thou perversely oppose thy Maker, he will oppose thee: no work or project shall prosper that is not begun in his name, and conducted in his fear."

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

froward

Psalm 109:17-19 As he loved cursing, so let it come to him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him...

Leviticus 26:23,24,27,28 And if you will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary to me...

Proverbs 3:34 Surely he scorns the scorners: but he gives grace to the lowly.

Romans 2:4-6,9 Or despise you the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering...

James 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; and mercy rejoices against judgment.

shew thyself froward. or, wrestle

Psalm 18:26 Parallel Commentaries
Astute Contend Contrary Crooked Froward Hard Holy Judge Perverse Pure Shew Show Showest Shrewd Straight Subtle Thyself Way Wilt Wrestler
Astute Contend Contrary Crooked Froward Hard Holy Judge Perverse Pure Shew Show Showest Shrewd Straight Subtle Thyself Way Wilt Wrestler
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Leviticus 26:23 "'If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me,
Leviticus 26:24 I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over.
Job 25:5 If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes,
Proverbs 3:34 He mocks proud mockers but shows favor to the humble and oppressed.
Habakkuk 1:13 Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?