Proverbs 3:26
24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you rest, your sleep will be sweet.
25 Do not fear sudden danger or the ruin that overtakes the wicked,
for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.
27 Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.
28 Do not tell your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I will provide”— when you already have the means.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare.
- KJV
- For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
- WEB
- for the LORD will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.
- ASV
- For Jehovah will be thy confidence, And will keep thy foot from being taken.
- DARBY
- for Jehovah shall be thy confidence, and he will keep thy foot from being taken.
- BLB
- For YHWH is at your flank, and He will guard your foot from capture.
- ÅB
- For Herren skal være din tillit, og han skal bevare din fot fra å fanges.
- OTB
- for Herren skal være din tillit og hindre at din fot blir fanget.
- B1930
- For Herren skal være din tillit, og han skal bevare din fot fra å fanges.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 91:3
Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.
Read in contextProverbs 14:26
He who fears the LORD is secure in confidence, and his children shall have a place of refuge.
Read in context1 Samuel 2:9
He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
Read in contextPsalms 91:9–10
Because you have made the LORD your dwelling— my refuge, the Most High—
Read in contextHabakkuk 3:17–18
Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,
Read in context