Pro 14:2 | NETfull | STEP | The one who walks in his uprightness fears the Lord , but the one who is perverted in his ways despises him.

Proverbs 14:2

2 The one who walks in his uprightness fears the Lord, ^{▼▼ Heb “fear of the Lord.” The term יְהוָה (y^ehvah, “the Lord”) functions as an objective genitive.}
but the one who is perverted in his ways ^{▼▼ 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.} despises him.