Proverbs 4:27
25 Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.
26 Make a level path for your feet, and all your ways will be sure.
Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your feet away from evil.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your feet away from evil.
- KJV
- Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
- WEB
- Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.
- ASV
- Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: Remove thy foot from evil.
- DARBY
- Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy foot from evil.
- BLB
- Do not bend away to the right or the left; turn aside your foot from evil.
- ÅB
- Bøy ikke av til høyre eller til venstre, vend din fot fra det onde!
- OTB
- Vend deg ikke til høyre eller venstre; hold din fot borte fra det onde.
- B1930
- Bøi ikke av til høire eller til venstre, vend din fot fra det onde!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 5:32
So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.
Read in contextJoshua 1:7
Above all, be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe all the law that My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may prosper wherever you go.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:14
Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from any of the words I command you today, and do not go after other gods to serve them.
Read in contextProverbs 16:17
The highway of the upright leads away from evil; he who guards his way protects his life.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 12:32
See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.
Read in contextIsaiah 1:16
Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
Read in contextRomans 12:9
Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
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