Proverbs 2:12
New International Version
Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,

New Living Translation
Wisdom will save you from evil people, from those whose words are twisted.

English Standard Version
delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,

Berean Standard Bible
to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,

King James Bible
To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

New King James Version
To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things,

New American Standard Bible
To rescue you from the way of evil, From a person who speaks perverse things;

NASB 1995
To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things;

NASB 1977
To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things;

Legacy Standard Bible
To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things;

Amplified Bible
To keep you from the way of evil and the evil man, From the man who speaks perverse things;

Christian Standard Bible
It will rescue you from the way of evil — from anyone who says perverse things,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
rescuing you from the way of evil— from the one who says perverse things,

American Standard Version
To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
That you may be delivered from evil ways and from men speaking contradictions

Brenton Septuagint Translation
to deliver thee from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully.

Contemporary English Version
Wisdom will protect you from evil schemes and from those liars

Douay-Rheims Bible
That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:

English Revised Version
To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men that speak froward things;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
[Wisdom will] save you from the way of evil, from the person who speaks devious things,

Good News Translation
and prevent you from doing the wrong thing. They will keep you away from people who stir up trouble by what they say--

International Standard Version
delivering you from the way of evil, from men who speak perverse things,

JPS Tanakh 1917
To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak froward things;

Literal Standard Version
To deliver you from an evil way, | From any speaking contrary things,

Majority Standard Bible
to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,

New American Bible
Saving you from the way of the wicked, from those whose speech is perverse.

NET Bible
to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,

New Revised Standard Version
It will save you from the way of evil, from those who speak perversely,

New Heart English Bible
to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

Webster's Bible Translation
To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

World English Bible
to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

Young's Literal Translation
To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,

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Context
The Benefits of Wisdom
11Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you, 12to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity, 13from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,…

Cross References
Proverbs 6:12
A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,

Proverbs 10:32
The lips of the righteous know what is fitting, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.

Proverbs 23:33
Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.

Proverbs 28:26
He who trusts in himself is a fool, but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.


Treasury of Scripture

To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks fraudulent things;

deliver

Proverbs 1:10-19
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not…

Proverbs 4:14-17
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men

Proverbs 9:6
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

from the man

Proverbs 3:32
For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.

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 16:28-30
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends…

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Proverbs 2
1. wisdom promises godliness to her children
10. and safety from evil company
20. and direction in good ways














(12) Froward things.--(Heb., tahp-khoth), i.e., misrepresentations, distortions of the truth.

Verse 12. - To deliver thee from the way of the evil man. The first special advantage resulting from the protecting guardianship of discretion and understanding. From the way of the evil man; properly, from an evil way; Hebrew, מִדֶּרֶך רָע (midarek ra), not necessarily, though by implication, connected with man, as in the Authorized Version. רָע (ra), "evil," "wicked," in an ethical sense, is an adjective, as in Jeremiah 3:16 (לֵב רָע, lev ra), "an evil heart;" cf. the LXX., ἀπὸ ὁδοῦ κακῆς; the Vulgate, Targum, and Arabic, a vid mala, and the Syriac, a viis pravis. "Way," is here used in the sense of "conduct," and the evil way is a line of conduct or action which is essentially wicked or evil. The teacher has already Warned youth against the temptations and dangers of the way of evil men in Proverbs 1:10-15; he now shows that discretion, arising from wisdom being resident in the heart, will be a sufficient safeguard against its allurements. From the man that speaketh froward things. Perverse utterances are here brought in contradistinction to the evil way or froward conduct. Man (אִשׁ ish) is here used generically, as the representative of the whole class of base and wicked men, since all the following verbs are in the plural, Froward things. The word תַּהְפֻכוֹּת (tah'pucoth), here translated "froward things," is derived from the root צּצּצּ (haphak), "to turn," "to pervert," and should be translated "perverseness." Perverseness is the wilful misrepresentation of that which is good and true. The utterances are of a distorted and tortuous character. The word, only found in the plural, is abstract in form, and is of frequent, though not of exclusive, occurrence in the Proverbs. It is attributed to the Israelites in Deuteronomy 32:20. It is met with again in such expressions as "the mouth of perverseness," Authorized Version "froward mouth" (Proverbs 8:13); "the tongue of perverseness," "froward tongue," Authorized Version (Proverbs 10:31); "the man of perverseness," "froward man," Authorized Version (Proverbs 16:28). What is here said of wicked men is attributed to drunkards in Proverbs 23:33, "Thine heart shall utter perverse things." The expression finds its explanation in Proverbs 6:13, 14. The spirit which indulges in this perverseness is stubborn, scornful, self-willed, and rebellious, and it is from such a spirit that discretion is a preservative. In Job 5:13 it is said that "the counsel of the froward is carried headlong" (see also 2 Samuel 22:27; Psalm 18:26; Psalm 101:4). The LXX. rendering of this word is μηδὲν πιστόν, "nothing trustworthy," which is amplified in the Arabic, quod nullam in se continet veritatem, "that which contains in itself no truth."

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Hebrew
to deliver you
לְ֭הַצִּ֣ילְךָ (lə·haṣ·ṣî·lə·ḵā)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5337: To strip, plunder, deliver oneself, be delivered, snatch away, deliver

from the way
מִדֶּ֣רֶךְ (mid·de·reḵ)
Preposition-m | Noun - common singular
Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

of evil,
רָ֑ע (rā‘)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

from the man
מֵ֝אִ֗ישׁ (mê·’îš)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

who speaks
מְדַבֵּ֥ר (mə·ḏab·bêr)
Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

perversity,
תַּהְפֻּכֽוֹת׃ (tah·pu·ḵō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 8419: Perversity, perverse thing


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