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Brenton's Septuagint

Proverbs 4:15

In whatever place they shall pitch their camp, go not thither; but turn from them, and pass away.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Company;   Fellowship;   Temptation;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Avoid Evil;   Exhortations;   The Topic Concordance - Evil;   Turning;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;   Temptation;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for December 30;   Every Day Light - Devotion for February 4;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Avoid it; don’t travel on it.Turn away from it, and pass it by.
Hebrew Names Version
Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
King James Version
Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
English Standard Version
Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.
New Century Version
Avoid their ways, and don't follow them. Stay away from them and keep on going,
New English Translation
Avoid it, do not go on it; turn away from it, and go on.
Amplified Bible
Avoid it, do not travel on it; Turn away from it and pass on.
New American Standard Bible
Avoid it, do not pass by it; Turn away from it and pass on.
World English Bible
Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Auoide it, and goe not by it: turne from it, and passe by.
Legacy Standard Bible
Avoid it, do not pass by it;Stray from it and pass on.
Berean Standard Bible
Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by.
Contemporary English Version
Turn aside and keep going. Stay away from them.
Complete Jewish Bible
Avoid it, don't go on it, turn away from it, and pass on.
Darby Translation
avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass away.
Easy-to-Read Version
Stay away from that path; don't even go near it. Turn around and go another way.
George Lamsa Translation
The place where they dwell, do not pass by it, turn away from it,
Good News Translation
Don't do it! Keep away from evil! Refuse it and go on your way.
Lexham English Bible
Avoid it; do not transgress it; turn away from it and pass by.
Literal Translation
Avoid it, do not pass by it; turn from it and pass on.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Eschue it, & go not therin: departe asyde, & passe ouer by it.
American Standard Version
Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on.
Bible in Basic English
Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass on.
King James Version (1611)
Auoid it, passe not by it, turne from it, and passe away.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Abhorre it and go not therein, depart aside, and passe ouer by it.
English Revised Version
Avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass on.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Fle thou fro it, and passe thou not therbi; bowe thou awei, and forsake it.
Update Bible Version
Avoid it, don't pass by it; Turn from it, and pass on.
Webster's Bible Translation
Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
New King James Version
Avoid it, do not travel on it; Turn away from it and pass on.
New Living Translation
Don't even think about it; don't go that way. Turn away and keep moving.
New Life Bible
Stay away from it. Do not pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
New Revised Standard
Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Avoid it, do not pass thereon - turn from it, and depart.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it.
Revised Standard Version
Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.
Young's Literal Translation
Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Avoid it, do not pass by it; Turn away from it and pass on.

Contextual Overview

14 Go not in the ways of the ungodly, neither covet the ways of transgressors. 15 In whatever place they shall pitch their camp, go not thither; but turn from them, and pass away. 16 For they cannot sleep, unless they have done evil: their sleep is taken away, and they rest not. 17 For these live upon the bread of ungodliness, and are drunken with wine of transgression. 18 But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go on and shine, until the day be fully come. 19 But the ways of the ungodly are dark; they know not how they stumble.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 5:8, Proverbs 6:5, Exodus 23:7, Job 11:14, Job 22:23, Isaiah 33:15, Ephesians 5:11, 1 Thessalonians 5:22

Reciprocal: Psalms 1:1 - walketh Proverbs 1:15 - walk Proverbs 7:8 - General Proverbs 7:25 - thine Proverbs 9:6 - Forsake Proverbs 12:11 - he that followeth Matthew 26:41 - enter

Cross-References

Genesis 4:24
Because vengeance has been exacted seven times on Cain’s behalf, on Lamech’s it shall be seventy times seven.
Leviticus 26:18
And if ye still refuse to hearken to me, then will I chasten you yet more even seven times for your sins.
Leviticus 26:21
And if after this ye should walk perversely, and not be willing to obey me, I will further bring upon you seven plagues according to your sins.
Leviticus 26:24
I also will walk with you with a perverse spirit, and I also will smite you seven times for your sins.
Leviticus 26:28
then will I walk with you with a froward mind, and I will chasten you seven-fold according to your sins.
1 Kings 16:7
And the Lord spoke by Ju the son of Anani against Baasa, and against his house, even all the evil which he wrought before the Lord to provoke him to anger by the works of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he smote him.
Psalms 59:11
Slay them not, lest they forget thy law; scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord, my defender.
Psalms 79:12
Repay to our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, with which they have reproached thee, O Lord.
Proverbs 6:31
but if he should be taken, he shall repay sevenfold, and shall deliver himself by giving all his goods.
Ezekiel 9:4
And said to him, Go through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that groan and that grieve for all the iniquities that are done in the midst of them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Avoid it,.... As dangerous and pernicious, as abominable and detestable; or, "flee from it", as the Vulgate Latin version: Jarchi and Gersom interpret it, "make it void"; cause it to cease, destroy it, do all you can to hinder the wicked from accomplishing their designs;

pass not by it; do not come near it; keep at a distance from it, that you may not be drawn into it; abstain from all appearance of evil, and everything that may lead to it;

turn from it, and pass away; the Targum adds, "from them", from wicked men. This heap of words is used to show the danger of bad company; to dissuade from the least approach to it; and to express the vehement desire of the wise man to preserve his son, and all well inclined persons, from it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The counsel which has come to him, in substance, from his father. Compare it with 2 Samuel 23:2 etc.; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Chronicles 29:17; Psalms 15:1-5; Psalms 24:1-10; Psalms 37:0.

Proverbs 4:7

Or, “The beginning of wisdom is - get wisdom.” To seek is to find, to desire is to obtain.

Proverbs 4:12

The ever-recurring parable of the journey of life. In the way of wisdom the path is clear and open, obstacles disappear; in the quickest activity (“when thou runnest”) there is no risk of falling.

Proverbs 4:13

She is thy life - Another parallel between personified Wisdom in this book and the Incarnate Wisdom in John 1:4.

Proverbs 4:16

A fearful stage of debasement. Sin is the condition without which there can be no repose.

Proverbs 4:17

i. e., Bread and wine gained by unjust deeds. Compare Amos 2:8. A less probable interpretation is, “They eat wickedness as bread, and drink violence as wine.” Compare Job 15:16; Job 34:7.

Proverbs 4:18

Shining ... shineth - The two Hebrew words are different; the first having the sense of bright or clear. The beauty of a cloudless sunshine growing on, shining as it goes, to the full and perfect day, is chosen as the fittest figure of the ever increasing brightness of the good man’s life. Compare the marginal reference.

Proverbs 4:19

Compare our Lord’s teaching John 11:10; John 12:35.

Proverbs 4:20

The teacher speaks again in his own person.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 4:15. Avoid it — Let it be the serious purpose of thy soul to shun every appearance of evil.

Pass not by it — Never, for the sake of worldly gain, or through complaisance to others, approach the way that thou wouldst not wish to be found in when God calls thee into the eternal world.

Turn from it — If, through unwatchfulness or unfaithfulness, thou at any time get near or into the way of sin, turn from it with the utmost speed, and humble thyself before thy Maker.

And pass away. — Speed from it, run for thy life, and get to the utmost distance; eternally diverging so as never to come near it whilst thou hast a being.


 
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