feckless and froward
May 15, 2008 at 8:31 pm (oddball)
Two words that caught my fancy today. These are great words. Froward is a big favorite with the King James Version of the Bible, viz:
Proverbs 6:12 - A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
Proverbs 16:30 - He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
Job 5:13 - He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Oddly enough, feckless doesn’t show up once in the KJV.
There must be some other relationship between them.
