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The way of a guilty person is crooked

This compares the way one lives to a crooked road one may travel. This is also an idiom. Alternate translation: "The way a guilty person lives is crooked" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom and rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor)

crooked

Here "crooked" means bent or not straight. This is a metaphor for morally wrong. Alternate translation: "wrong" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor)