Why are the nations in an uproar And the peoples devising a vain thing?
Original word: לוּז
Transliteration: luz
Definition (short): devious
Definition (full): to turn aside, to depart, be perverse
Word Origin: a prim. root
Definition: to turn aside, depart
NASB Translation: depart (1), devious (3), guile (1), vanish (1).
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A primitive root; to turn aside (compare
lavah ,
luwt and
luwn ), i.e. (literally) to depart, (figuratively) be perverse -- depart, froward, perverse(-ness).
see HEBREW lavah
see HEBREW luwt
see HEBREW luwn
KJV:
Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
NASB:
Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways;
KJV:
My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
NASB:
My son, let them not vanish from your sight; Keep sound wisdom and discretion,
KJV:
For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
NASB:
For the devious are an abomination to the LORD; But He is intimate with the upright.
KJV:
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
NASB:
Do not let them depart from your sight; Keep them in the midst of your heart.
KJV:
He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
NASB:
He who walks in his uprightness fears the LORD, But he who is devious in his ways despises Him.