Proverbs 21:8 (KJV) The Way of Man

Proverbs 21:8 (KJV)

The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

The way of man
It does not appear there is a distinction between one man or the other,

• The Jewish man or the Gentleman
• The spiritual man or the pagan man
• The religious man or the heathen man
• The wealthy man or the poor man
• The educated man or the illiterate man
• The working man of the gentleman
• The blue-collar man or the white-collar man
• The moral man or the immoral man
• The good man or the bad man
• The famous man or the infamous man

This passage merely says, “the way of man.”

Man, in every position, is froward. He is willful and strange. He is opposed to God.

But as for the pure
On first thought we might apply this to perhaps the saved man. Admittedly salvation changes him positionally and relationally, but it does not change his fleshly nature until he reaches eternity. I’ve met plenty of Christians- I guesstimate all of them-who were “froward and strange.”

I conclude, as does John Gill, that “the pure” speaks of God Himself. “God is pure, purity itself, in comparison of whom nothing is pure; and his work in creation, providence, and grace, is right…”

God alone is pure
Whatever may be pure in a man is God in him.

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Proverbs 21:8 (KJV) The Way of Man