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Hebrew Names Version

Proverbs 4:26

Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Decision;   Integrity;   Watchfulness;   Young Men;   The Topic Concordance - Alertness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Feet, the;   Heedfulness;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Heart;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Fringes;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ponder;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - AḥiḴar;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for February 4;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Carefully consider the path for your feet,and all your ways will be established.
King James Version
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.
New Century Version
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.
Amplified Bible
Consider well and watch carefully the path of your feet, And all your ways will be steadfast and sure.
New American Standard Bible
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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
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.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
Complete Jewish Bible
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.
Easy-to-Read Version
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.
Good News Translation
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.
Literal Translation
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.
American Standard Version
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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
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.
English Revised Version
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.
Update Bible Version
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.
New King James Version
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.
New Life Bible
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.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
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.
Revised Standard Version
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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Watch the path of your feet And all your ways will be established.

Contextual Overview

20 My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart. 22 For they are life to those who find them, And health to their whole body. 23 Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it is the wellspring of life. 24 Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you. 25 Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you. 26 Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established. 27 Don't turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from 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 surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the eretz. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."
Genesis 4:15
The LORD said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Kayin, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." the LORD appointed a sign for Kayin, lest any finding him should strike him.
Genesis 4:17
Kayin knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Hanokh. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Hanokh.
Genesis 4:18
To Hanokh was born `Irad. `Irad became the father of Mechuya'el. Mechuya'el became the father of Metusha'el. Metusha'el became the father of Lamekh.
Genesis 12:8
He left from there to the mountain on the east of Beit-El, and pitched his tent, having Beit-El on the west, and `Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and called on the name of the LORD.
Genesis 26:25
He built an altar there, and called on the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there. There Yitzchak's servants dug a well.
1 Kings 18:24
Call you on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD; and the God who answers by fire, let him be God. 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.
Isaiah 44:5
One shall say, I am the LORD's; and another shall call [himself] by the name of Ya`akov; and another shall subscribe with his hand to the LORD, and surname [himself] by the name of Yisra'el.
Isaiah 48:1
Hear you this, house of Ya`akov, who are called by the name of Yisra'el, and are come forth out of the waters of Yehudah; who swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Yisra'el, but not in truth, nor in righteousness

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 feetWeigh well the part thou shouldst act in life. See that thou contract no bad habits.


 
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