Proverbs 21:29 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁹ A wicked man hardeneth his face: But as for the upright, he ordereth his ways.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ A wicked man hardeneth his face: But as for the upright, he directeth his way.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ A wicked man puts on the bold, unfeeling face [of guilt], but as for the upright, he considers, directs, and establishes his way [with the confidence of integrity].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ A wicked man hardeneth his face; But as for the upright, he establisheth his ways.

Common English Bible

²⁹ The wicked person appears brash, but the virtuous think about the path ahead.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ The impious man insolently hardens his face. But whoever is upright corrects his own way.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ The wicked man impudently hardeneth his face: but he that is righteous, correcteth his way.

Proverbs 21:29 Cross References

Psalm 119:5

Oh that my ways were established To observe thy statutes!

Psalm 119:59

I thought on my ways, And turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

Proverbs 28:14

Happy is the man that feareth alway: But he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

Proverbs 29:1

He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck Shall suddenly be broken, and that without remedy.

Proverbs 4:25

Let thine eyes look right on, And let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

Proverbs 4:26

Make level the path of thy feet, And let all thy ways be established.

Proverbs 7:13

So she caught him, and kissed him, And with an impudent face she said unto him:

Ecclesiastes 8:1

Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

Jeremiah 5:3

O LORD, do not thine eyes look upon truth? thou hast stricken them, but they were not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

Jeremiah 8:12

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

Ezekiel 18:28

Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Haggai 1:5

Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways,

Haggai 1:7

Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

Haggai 2:15

And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:

1 Thessalonians 3:11

Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way unto you: