Proverbs 16:17
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Avoids Care Depart Evil Guards Heed Highway Keepeth Keeps Life Preserves Preserveth Preserving Soul Turn Turned Turns Upright Watches Watching Way
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Avoids Care Depart Evil Guards Heed Highway Keepeth Keeps Life Preserves Preserveth Preserving Soul Turn Turned Turns Upright Watches Watching Way
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English Standard Version
The highway of the upright turns aside from evil; whoever guards his way preserves his life.

New American Standard Bible
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil; He who watches his way preserves his life.

King James Bible
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The highway of the upright avoids evil; the one who guards his way protects his life.

International Standard Version
The road of the upright circumvents evil, and whoever watches how he lives preserves his life.

NET Bible
The highway of the upright is to turn away from evil; the one who guards his way safeguards his life.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The path of the upright turns from evil and he that pays attention to his soul keeps his way.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The highway of decent people turns away from evil. Whoever watches his way preserves his own life.

King James 2000 Bible
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keeps his way preserves his soul.

American King James Version
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keeps his way preserves his soul.

American Standard Version
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: He that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The path of the just departeth from evils: he that keepeth his soul keepeth his way.

Darby Bible Translation
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that taketh heed to his way keepeth his soul.

English Revised Version
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

Webster's Bible Translation
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

World English Bible
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.

Young's Literal Translation
A highway of the upright is, 'Turn from evil,' Whoso is preserving his soul is watching his way.
Lexicon
The highway
mcillah  (mes-il-law')
a thoroughfare (as turnpiked), literally or figuratively; specifically a viaduct, a staircase -- causeway, course, highway, path, terrace.
of the upright
yashar  (yaw-shawr')
straight -- convenient, equity, Jasher, just, meet(-est), + pleased well right(-eous), straight, (most) upright(-ly, -ness).
is to depart
cuwr  (soor)
to turn off (literal or figurative)
from evil
ra`  (rah)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
he that keepeth
natsar  (naw-tsar')
to guard, in a good sense (to protect, maintain, obey, etc.) or a bad one (to conceal, etc.)
his way
derek  (deh'-rek)
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
preserveth
shamar  (shaw-mar')
to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
his soul
nephesh  (neh'-fesh)
a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
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