Proverbs 3:32
New International Version
For the LORD detests the perverse but takes the upright into his confidence.

New Living Translation
Such wicked people are detestable to the LORD, but he offers his friendship to the godly.

English Standard Version
for the devious person is an abomination to the LORD, but the upright are in his confidence.

Berean Standard Bible
for the LORD detests the perverse, but He is a friend to the upright.

King James Bible
For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.

New King James Version
For the perverse person is an abomination to the LORD, But His secret counsel is with the upright.

New American Standard Bible
For the devious are an abomination to the LORD; But He is intimate with the upright.

NASB 1995
For the devious are an abomination to the LORD; But He is intimate with the upright.

NASB 1977
For the crooked man is an abomination to the LORD; But He is intimate with the upright.

Legacy Standard Bible
For the devious one is an abomination to Yahweh; But His secret council is with the upright.

Amplified Bible
For the devious are repulsive to the LORD; But His private counsel is with the upright [those with spiritual integrity and moral courage].

Christian Standard Bible
for the devious are detestable to the LORD, but he is a friend to the upright.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
for the devious are detestable to the LORD, but He is a friend to the upright.

American Standard Version
For the perverse is an abomination to Jehovah; But his friendship is with the upright.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because an evil one is defiled before LORD JEHOVAH and the discourses of LORD JEHOVAH are with the upright.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For every transgressor is unclean before the Lord; neither does he sit among the righteous.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD doesn't like anyone who is dishonest, but he lets good people be his friends.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For every mocker is an abomination to the Lord, and his communication is with the simple.

English Revised Version
For the perverse is an abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the upright.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The devious person is disgusting to the LORD. The LORD's intimate advice is with decent people.

Good News Translation
because the LORD hates people who do evil, but he takes righteous people into his confidence.

International Standard Version
Indeed, a perverse man is utterly disgusting to the LORD, but he takes the upright into his confidence.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For the perverse is an abomination to the LORD; But His counsel is with the upright.

Literal Standard Version
For the perverted [is] an abomination to YHWH, | And His secret counsel [is] with the upright.

Majority Standard Bible
for the LORD detests the perverse, but He is a friend to the upright.

New American Bible
To the LORD the devious are an abomination, but the upright are close to him.

NET Bible
for one who goes astray is an abomination to the LORD, but he reveals his intimate counsel to the upright.

New Revised Standard Version
for the perverse are an abomination to the LORD, but the upright are in his confidence.

New Heart English Bible
For the perverse is an abomination to the LORD, but his friendship is with the upright.

Webster's Bible Translation
For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.

World English Bible
For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

Young's Literal Translation
For an abomination to Jehovah is the perverted, And with the upright is His secret counsel.

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Context
The Blessings of Wisdom
31Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways; 32for the LORD detests the perverse, but He is a friend to the upright. 33The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, but He blesses the home of the righteous.…

Cross References
John 7:17
If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.

Job 29:4
when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on my tent,

Psalm 25:14
The LORD confides in those who fear Him, and reveals His covenant to them.

Proverbs 11:20
The perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, but the blameless in their walk are His delight.

Isaiah 41:24
Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.


Treasury of Scripture

For the fraudulent is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.

the froward

Proverbs 6:6-19
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: …

Proverbs 8:13
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Proverbs 11:20
They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.

his

Proverbs 14:10
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.

Psalm 25:14
The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.

Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.

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Proverbs 3
1. various exhortations
13. The gain of wisdom
27. Exhortation to goodness
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(32) His secret is with the righteous--i.e., He holds confidential intercourse with them. (Comp. Psalm 25:14, and the reward of love and obedience to Christ, that both Father and Son will "come" unto the believer, and "make their abode with him," through the indwelling Spirit, John 14:23.)

Verse 32. - This verse gives the reason for the previous warning. The oppressor is here included under the more general term, "the froward." The froward; naloz, hiph. participle from luz, "to bend aside," and hence a perverted or wicked man, one who turns aside from the way of uprightness, a transgressor of the Law (cf. LXX., παράνομος); and so the opposite of "the righteous," y'sharim, "the upright," those who pursue the path of justness, or the straightforward. Abomination (toevah); i.e. an abhorrence, something which, being impure and unclean (cf. LXX., ἀκάθαρτος), is especially abhorrent to Jehovah. In some passages it is connected with idolatry, as in 1 Kings 14:24 and 2 Kings 23:13, but is never used in this sense in the Proverbs, where it occurs about twenty times (see Proverbs 28:9; Proverbs 21:27; Proverbs 11:1, 20, etc.). The passage shows that prosperity and worldly success are not always a true measure of Divine favour. His secret (sodo); Vulgate, sermocinatio. Here sod probably means "familiar intercourse," as in Job 29:4 and Psalm 25:14; and hence the special favour with which Jehovah regards the upright, by revealing to them what he conceals item others, or his friendship (compare what our Lord says in John 15:14, 15). Dathe translates "probis vero est familiaris." Gesenius says sod properly means "a couch," or triclinium on which people recline; but Delitzsch derives it from the root sod, "to be firm," "compressed," and states that it therefore means properly "a being together, or sitting together." The LXX. eontinues the "froward man" (παράνομος) as the subject, and renders, "Every transgressor is impure before God, and does not sit together with (οὐ συνεδριάζει) the just."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
for
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

the LORD
יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

detests
תוֹעֲבַ֣ת (ṯō·w·‘ă·ḇaṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 8441: Something disgusting, an abhorrence, idolatry, an idol

the perverse,
נָל֑וֹז (nā·lō·wz)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 3868: To turn aside, to depart, be perverse

but He is a friend
סוֹדֽוֹ׃ (sō·w·ḏōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5475: A session, company of persons, intimacy, consultation, a secret

to the upright.
יְשָׁרִ֥ים (yə·šā·rîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 3477: Straight, right


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