In Proverbs 16:17, the upright's highway avoids evil and guarding one's way preserves life—the positive counterpart to the crooked's thorny path.

Proverbs 14:27 says fear of the Lord helps avoid snares of death — directly reinforcing the way to stay far from the snares here.

Proverbs 13:15 says the way of the treacherous is hard, matching the thorns and snares for the perverse here.

In Proverbs 15:19, the sluggard's way is a hedge of thorns—same 'thorns' metaphor for a difficult path, but applied to laziness rather than crookedness.

In Joshua 23:13, God warns that foreign nations will become 'snares and thorns' to Israel—the same dual imagery of thorns and snares as divine judgment.

In Psalm 18:26, God shows Himself 'froward' (crooked) with the froward—sharing the rare Hebrew root for the same kind of person whose path is full of thorns.

In Job 18:8, Bildad says the wicked are cast into a net and walk on a snare—reinforcing the theme that snares await the crooked.

In Psalm 11:6, God rains snares on the wicked—the same 'snares' imagery for divine retribution on the perverse.