Proverbs 23:19
17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.
18 For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course.
20 Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.
21 For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course.
- KJV
- Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
- WEB
- Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!
- ASV
- Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way.
- DARBY
- Thou, my son, hear and be wise, and direct thy heart in the way.
- BLB
- Listen you, my son, and be wise, and let your heart walk straight in the way.
- ÅB
- Hør, min sønn, og bli vis og la ditt hjerte gå bent fram på veien!
- OTB
- Lytt, min sønn, og vær klok, og styr ditt hjerte på den rette veien:
- B1930
- Hør, min sønn, og bli vis og la ditt hjerte gå bent frem på veien!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.
Read in contextProverbs 23:12
Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.
Read in contextProverbs 4:10–23
Listen, my son, and receive my words, and the years of your life will be many.
Read in contextProverbs 6:6
Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.
Read in contextProverbs 9:6
Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”
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