Proverbs 14:2

The one who walks in his uprightness fears the Lord, ¹  but the one who is perverted in his ways ²  despises him.

1Ki 3:6; Job 1:1; Job 12:4; Job 28:28; Ps 25:21; Ps 112:1; Ps 123:3,4; Pr 11:12; Pr 16:17; Pr 28:6; Ec 12:13; Mal 2:5,6; Lu 10:16; Lu 16:14; Ac 9:31; Ac 10:22,35; Ro 2:4,5; 2Ti 3:2,3

¹ tn Heb “fear of the Lord.” The term יְהוָה (yÿhvah, “the Lord”) functions as an objective genitive.

² tn Heb “crooked of ways”; NRSV “devious in conduct.” This construct phrase features a genitive of specification: “crooked in reference to his ways.” The term “ways” is an idiom for moral conduct. The evidence that people fear the Lord is uprightness; the evidence of those who despise him is the devious ways.