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Proverbs 4:26
Consider well and watch carefully the path of your feet, And all your ways will be steadfast and sure.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Carefully consider the path for your feet,and all your ways will be established.
Carefully consider the path for your feet,and all your ways will be established.
Hebrew Names Version
Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.
Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.
King James Version
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
English Standard Version
Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure.
Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure.
New Century Version
Be careful what you do, and always do what is right.
Be careful what you do, and always do what is right.
New English Translation
Make the path for your feet level, so that all your ways may be established.
Make the path for your feet level, so that all your ways may be established.
New American Standard Bible
Watch the path of your feet, And all your ways will be established.
Watch the path of your feet, And all your ways will be established.
World English Bible
Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.
Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Ponder the path of thy feete, and let all thy waies be ordred aright.
Ponder the path of thy feete, and let all thy waies be ordred aright.
Legacy Standard Bible
Watch the track of your feetAnd all your ways will be established.
Watch the track of your feetAnd all your ways will be established.
Berean Standard Bible
Make level paths for your feet, and all your ways will be sure.
Make level paths for your feet, and all your ways will be sure.
Contemporary English Version
Know where you are headed, and you will stay on solid ground.
Know where you are headed, and you will stay on solid ground.
Complete Jewish Bible
Level the path for your feet, let all your ways be properly prepared;
Level the path for your feet, let all your ways be properly prepared;
Darby Translation
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be well-ordered.
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be well-ordered.
Easy-to-Read Version
Make sure you are going the right way, and nothing will make you fall.
Make sure you are going the right way, and nothing will make you fall.
George Lamsa Translation
Keep your feet away from evil paths; then all your ways shall be firm.
Keep your feet away from evil paths; then all your ways shall be firm.
Good News Translation
Plan carefully what you do, and whatever you do will turn out right.
Plan carefully what you do, and whatever you do will turn out right.
Lexham English Bible
May the path of your foot be balanced and all your ways be sure.
May the path of your foot be balanced and all your ways be sure.
Literal Translation
Study the track of your feet, then all your ways will be established.
Study the track of your feet, then all your ways will be established.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Podre the path of thy fete, so shal all yi wayes be sure.
Podre the path of thy fete, so shal all yi wayes be sure.
American Standard Version
Make level the path of thy feet, And let all thy ways be established.
Make level the path of thy feet, And let all thy ways be established.
Bible in Basic English
Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.
Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Make plain the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
Make plain the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
King James Version (1611)
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy wayes be established.
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy wayes be established.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ponder the path of thy feete, and let all thy wayes be ordred aright.
Ponder the path of thy feete, and let all thy wayes be ordred aright.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Make straight paths for thy feet, and order thy ways aright.
Make straight paths for thy feet, and order thy ways aright.
English Revised Version
Make level the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
Make level the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Dresse thou pathis to thi feet, and alle thi weies schulen be stablischid.
Dresse thou pathis to thi feet, and alle thi weies schulen be stablischid.
Update Bible Version
Make level the path of your feet, And let all your ways be established.
Make level the path of your feet, And let all your ways be established.
Webster's Bible Translation
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
New King James Version
Ponder the path of your feet, And let all your ways be established.
Ponder the path of your feet, And let all your ways be established.
New Living Translation
Mark out a straight path for your feet; stay on the safe path.
Mark out a straight path for your feet; stay on the safe path.
New Life Bible
Watch the path of your feet, and all your ways will be sure.
Watch the path of your feet, and all your ways will be sure.
New Revised Standard
Keep straight the path of your feet, and all your ways will be sure.
Keep straight the path of your feet, and all your ways will be sure.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Make level the track of thy foot, that, all thy ways, may be directed aright:
Make level the track of thy foot, that, all thy ways, may be directed aright:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established.
Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established.
Revised Standard Version
Take heed to the path of your feet, then all your ways will be sure.
Take heed to the path of your feet, then all your ways will be sure.
Young's Literal Translation
Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways [are] established.
Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways [are] established.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Watch the path of your feet And all your ways will be established.
Watch the path of your feet And all your ways will be established.
Contextual Overview
20My son, pay attention to my words and be willing to learn; Open your ears to my sayings. 21Do not let them escape from your sight; Keep them in the center of your heart. 22For they are life to those who find them, And healing and health to all their flesh. 23Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life. 24Put away from you a deceitful (lying, misleading) mouth, And put devious lips far from you. 25Let your eyes look directly ahead [toward the path of moral courage] And let your gaze be fixed straight in front of you [toward the path of integrity]. 26Consider well and watch carefully the path of your feet, And all your ways will be steadfast and sure.27Do not turn away to the right nor to the left [where evil may lurk]; Turn your foot from [the path of] evil.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Ponder: Proverbs 5:6, Psalms 119:59, Ezekiel 18:28, Haggai 1:5, Haggai 1:7, Ephesians 5:15, Ephesians 5:17
let all thy ways be established: or, all thy ways shall be ordered aright, Psalms 37:23, Psalms 40:2, 1 Thessalonians 3:13, 2 Thessalonians 3:3, 1 Peter 5:10
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:14 - thou shalt Joshua 23:6 - that ye Psalms 39:1 - I said Proverbs 14:15 - simple Matthew 7:14 - narrow Hebrews 12:13 - make
Cross-References
Genesis 4:14
"Behold, You have driven me out this day from the face of the land; and from Your face (presence) I will be hidden, and I will be a fugitive and an [aimless] vagabond on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me."
"Behold, You have driven me out this day from the face of the land; and from Your face (presence) I will be hidden, and I will be a fugitive and an [aimless] vagabond on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me."
Genesis 4:15
And the LORD said to him, "Therefore, whoever kills Cain, a sevenfold vengeance [that is, punishment seven times worse] shall be taken on him [by Me]." And the LORD set a [protective] mark (sign) on Cain, so that no one who found (met) him would kill him.
And the LORD said to him, "Therefore, whoever kills Cain, a sevenfold vengeance [that is, punishment seven times worse] shall be taken on him [by Me]." And the LORD set a [protective] mark (sign) on Cain, so that no one who found (met) him would kill him.
Genesis 4:17
Cain knew his wife [one of Adam's descendants] and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch; and Cain built a city and named it Enoch, after the name of his son.
Cain knew his wife [one of Adam's descendants] and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch; and Cain built a city and named it Enoch, after the name of his son.
Genesis 4:18
Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad became the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael became the father of Methushael, and Methushael became the father of Lamech.
Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad became the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael became the father of Methushael, and Methushael became the father of Lamech.
Genesis 12:8
Then he moved on from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD [in worship through prayer, praise, and thanksgiving].
Then he moved on from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD [in worship through prayer, praise, and thanksgiving].
Genesis 26:25
So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD [in prayer]. He pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants dug a well.
So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD [in prayer]. He pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants dug a well.
1 Kings 18:24
"Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD; and the god who answers by fire, He is God." And all the people answered, "It is well spoken."
"Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD; and the god who answers by fire, He is God." And all the people answered, "It is well spoken."
Psalms 116:17
I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving, And will call on the name of the LORD.
I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving, And will call on the name of the LORD.
Isaiah 44:5
"One will say, 'I am the LORD'S'; And another will name himself after Jacob; And another will write on his hand, 'I am the LORD'S,' And be called by the [honorable] name of Israel.
"One will say, 'I am the LORD'S'; And another will name himself after Jacob; And another will write on his hand, 'I am the LORD'S,' And be called by the [honorable] name of Israel.
Isaiah 48:1
"Hear this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel And who come from the seed of Judah, You who swear [allegiance] by the name of the LORD And invoke the God of Israel, But not in truth (sincerity) nor in righteousness [with moral and spiritual integrity].
"Hear this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel And who come from the seed of Judah, You who swear [allegiance] by the name of the LORD And invoke the God of Israel, But not in truth (sincerity) nor in righteousness [with moral and spiritual integrity].
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Ponder the path of thy feet,.... Consider well what path it is, whether right or wrong; or weigh it in the balances of thought, as Aben Ezra; or rather in the balances of the word, and see whether it agrees with that or not. The Septuagint version is, "make straight paths for thy feet"; to which the author of the epistle to the Hebrews seems to have respect, Hebrews 12:13;
and let all thy walls be established; so as to walk on steadily, constantly, uniformly, and not be easily moved out of the ways of religion and truth. Or, "let all thy ways be prepared", or "directed", or "disposed" c; according to the rule of the divine word. Some render it as a promise, "and all thy ways shall be established" d; when care is taken to look well into them; see 2 Chronicles 20:20.
c יכנו "dirigantur", Tigurine version, Mercerus; "recte apparentur aut disponantur", Vatablus. d "Stabilientur", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus; "constabilientur", Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Speech turned from its true purpose, the wandering eye that leads on to evil, action hasty and inconsiderate, are the natural results where we do not “above all keeping keep our heart” Proverbs 4:23.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 4:26. Ponder the path of thy feet — Weigh well the part thou shouldst act in life. See that thou contract no bad habits.
