Proverbs 1:15

Easy-to-Read Version

My son, don't follow them. Don't even take the first step along that path.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
my son, don’t travel that road with themor set foot on their path,

Hebrew Names Version
My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

King James Version
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

English Standard Version
my son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths,

New Century Version
My child, do not go along with them; do not do what they do.

New English Translation
My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;

Amplified Bible
My son, do not walk on the road with them; Keep your foot [far] away from their path,

New American Standard Bible
My son, do not walk on the way with them. Keep your feet from their path,

World English Bible
My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

Geneva Bible (1587)
My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them: refraine thy foote from their path.

Legacy Standard Bible
My son, do not walk in the way with them.Withhold your feet from their pathway,

Berean Standard Bible
my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.

Contemporary English Version
Don't follow anyone like that or do what they do.

Complete Jewish Bible
my son, don't go along with them, don't set foot on their path;

Darby Translation
—my son, walk not in the way with them, keep back thy foot from their path;

George Lamsa Translation
My son, do not walk in the way with them; but refrain your foot from their path;

Good News Translation
My child, don't go with people like that. Stay away from them.

Lexham English Bible
My child, do not walk in their way. Keep your foot from their paths,

Literal Translation
My son, do not walk in the way with them! Hold back your foot from their path;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
My sonne, walke not thou wt them, refrayne yi fote fro their wayes.

American Standard Version
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path:

Bible in Basic English
My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
My son, walk not thou in the way with them, restrain thy foot from their path;

King James Version (1611)
My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them; refraine thy foot from their path:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
My sonne, walke not thou with them, refrayne thy foote from their wayes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
go not in the way with them, but turn aside thy foot from their paths:

English Revised Version
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
my sone, go thou not with hem; forbede thi foot fro the pathis of hem.

Update Bible Version
My son, don't walk in the way with them; Refrain your foot from their path:

Webster's Bible Translation
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

New King James Version
My son, do not walk in the way with them, Keep your foot from their path;

New Living Translation
My child, don't go along with them! Stay far away from their paths.

New Life Bible
My son, do not walk in the way with them. Keep your feet from their path.

New Revised Standard
my child, do not walk in their way, keep your foot from their paths;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
My son, do not walk in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths.

Revised Standard Version
my son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their paths;

Young's Literal Translation
My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
My son, do not walk in the way with them. Keep your feet from their path,

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ My son, those who love to do wrong will try to trick you. Don't listen to them. ¹¹ They will say, "Come with us. Let's hide and beat to death anyone who happens to walk by. ¹² We will swallow them whole, as the grave swallows the dying. ¹³ We will take everything they have and fill our houses with stolen goods. ¹⁴ So join us, and you can share everything we get." ¹⁵ My son, don't follow them. Don't even take the first step along that path. ¹⁶ They run to do something evil, and they cannot wait to kill someone. ¹⁷ You cannot trap birds with a net if they see you spreading it out. ¹⁸ But evil people cannot see the trap they set for themselves. ¹⁹ This is what happens to those who are greedy. Whatever they get destroys them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

walk: Proverbs 4:14, Proverbs 4:15, Proverbs 9:6, Proverbs 13:20, Psalms 1:1, Psalms 26:4, Psalms 26:5, 2 Corinthians 6:17

refrain: Proverbs 4:27, Proverbs 5:8, Psalms 119:101, Jeremiah 14:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 39:10 - or to be Genesis 39:12 - and he left Genesis 49:6 - come Exodus 23:2 - follow Numbers 22:21 - General Job 34:8 - General Proverbs 1:8 - My son Proverbs 3:31 - choose Isaiah 8:11 - instructed 1 Thessalonians 2:11 - as

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My son, walk not thou in the way with them,.... In the same way as they do, which is the broad way that leads unto destruction; set not one foot in it; make no trial of it, whether it will be pleasant and profitable walking in it; the experiment will be dangerous;

refrain thy foot from their path; their manner and course of life; do not follow it, nor join them in it; when there is an inclination or a temptation to it, withstand it; stop in time, do not proceed, but draw back, and go on in the way thou hast been trained up in, and remember the instructions of thy parents.