Proverbs 21:8 (BSB)

The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.

From Proverbs 21. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 21:8

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 21:8: 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 (Psa 14:2, Psa 14:3); all flesh have perverted their way.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 21:8: The way of man is froward and strange,.... Not the way of any and every man; not the way of righteous and good men, of believers in Christ; who know him, the way, and walk in him and after him, and being led by him; who have his spirit to be their guide, and do walk in his ways, and find pleasure in them; the...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 21:8: of man--any one; his way is opposed to truth, and also estranged from it. The pure proves himself such by his right conduct.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 21:8: Pro 21:8 8 Winding is the way of a man laden with guilt; But the pure - his conduct is right. Rightly the accentuation places together “the way of a man” as subject, and “winding” as predicate: if the poet had wished to say (Schultens, Bertheau) “one crooked in his way” (quoad viam), he would have contented himself with the phrase נחפּך דּרך.