“Perversa via viri aliena est ; qui autem mundus est, rectum opus ejus.”
“The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.”
“The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.”
“The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.”
“The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding crooked; But as for the pure, his work is right.”
Strange. Unknown, impure way, Leviticus x. 1., and Deuteronomy xvii. 15. (Calmet)
This may be taken as showing us, 1. The marks of a wicked man. He that has a high look and a proud heart, that carries himself insolently and scornfully towards both God and man, and that is always ploughing and plotting, designing and devising some mischief or other, is indeed a wicked man. The light of the wicked is sin. Sin is the pride, the ambition, the glory and joy, and the business of wicked men. 2. The miseries of wicked man. His raised expectations, his high designs, and most elaborate contrivances and projects, are sin to him; he contracts guilt in them and so prepares trouble for himself. The very business of all wicked men, as well as their pleasure, is nothing but sin; so Bishop Patrick. They do all to serve their lusts, and have no regard to the glory of God in it, and therefore their ploughing is sin, and no marvel when their sacrificing is so, ch. 15 8.
“And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,”
“And when God had seen that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth),”