(1) This verse shows that the person that is froward in heart comes up with mischief and the person sows discord.(2) Atli was the eldest son; a man yielding and soft-natured, easy, and meek withal, and all men liked him well: another son they had called Grettir; he was very froward in his childhood; of few words, and rough; worrying both in word and deed.(3) The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate.(4) Then all the young men tucked up their sleeves to the elbows and fell a-weeping and wailing and they blackened their faces and smeared their clothes and buffeted their brows and beat their breasts, continually exclaiming, ÔÇÿWe were sitting at our ease, but our frowardness brought us unease!ÔÇÖ(5) And yet I misdoubt me that thou wilt not bring this about, because of the frowardness of them that follow thee.(6) Her every word is righteous, and she never speaks frowardly or perversely.(7) Here there can be twain no longer, for all jarring, frowardness , and opposition being removed, the oneness is established, wherein the true peace consists forever.(8) Thou wilt bring eternal doom on all frowardness and transgression, and Thy righteousness will stand revealed in the sight of all Thou hast made.(9) Yet let no man hereby take the boldness to abuse that liberty, turning it to licentiousness; nor misinterpret the petition by perverting it to a lawless liberty, wantonly or frowardly , under that or any other color, to resist lawful and necessary authority.(10) For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.(11) All this is of his craft and wiliness: wherefore do thou betake thyself to equity and fair dealing and leave frowardness and tyranny; and thou shalt fare all the better for it.(12) He who had been walking frowardly in the way of his heart might find healing by turning to the Lord.(13) For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth and smote him, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
