The foolishness of man perverts his way: and his heart frets against the LORD.
The foolishness of man perverts his way: and his heart frets against the LORD.
The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his heart fretteth against Jehovah.
By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.
The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.
The foolishness of man subverteth his way; and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
The foolishness of man - Most men complain of cross providences, because they get into straits and difficulties through the perverseness of their ways; and thus they fret against God; whereas, in every instance, they are the causes of their own calamities. O how inconsistent is man!
The non-wisdom which, having brought about disasters by its own perverseness, then turns round and "fretteth," i. e., angrily complains against the Providence of God.
Perverteth - Rather, "overturneth," "maketh to fail."
19:3 Perverteth - Blasts his designs and enterprises. Fretteth - He ascribes his unhappiness not to his own sin, but to God and his providence.