Proverbs 4:27
New International Version
Do not turn to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil.

New Living Translation
Don’t get sidetracked; keep your feet from following evil.

English Standard Version
Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

Berean Standard Bible
Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your feet away from evil.

King James Bible
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

New King James Version
Do not turn to the right or the left; Remove your foot from evil.

New American Standard Bible
Do not turn to the right or to the left; Turn your foot from evil.

NASB 1995
Do not turn to the right nor to the left; Turn your foot from evil.

NASB 1977
Do not turn to the right nor to the left; Turn your foot from evil.

Legacy Standard Bible
Do not turn to the right nor to the left; Turn your foot from evil.

Amplified Bible
Do not turn away to the right nor to the left [where evil may lurk]; Turn your foot from [the path of] evil.

Christian Standard Bible
Don’t turn to the right or to the left; keep your feet away from evil.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Don’t turn to the right or to the left; keep your feet away from evil.

American Standard Version
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: Remove thy foot from evil.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Do not turn aside to the right or to the left, but remove your foot from evil.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Turn not aside to the right hand nor to the left, but turn away thy foot from an evil way: for God knows the ways on the right hand, but those on the left are crooked:and he will make thy ways straight, and will guide thy steps in peace.

Contemporary English Version
Don't make a mistake by turning to the right or the left.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace.

English Revised Version
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Do not lean to the right or to the left. Walk away from evil.

Good News Translation
Avoid evil and walk straight ahead. Don't go one step off the right way.

International Standard Version
Do not turn to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; Remove thy foot from evil.

Literal Standard Version
Do not incline [to] the right or to the left, | Turn aside your foot from evil!

Majority Standard Bible
Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your feet away from evil.

New American Bible
Turn neither to right nor to left, keep your foot far from evil.

NET Bible
Do not turn to the right or to the left; turn yourself away from evil.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

New Heart English Bible
Do not turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

Webster's Bible Translation
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

World English Bible
Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

Young's Literal Translation
Incline not to the right or to the left, Turn aside thy foot from evil!

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Context
A Father's Instruction
26Make a level path for your feet, and all your ways will be sure. 27Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your feet away from evil.

Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:32
So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.

Deuteronomy 28:14
Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from any of the words I command you today, and do not go after other gods to serve them.

Proverbs 1:15
my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.

Isaiah 1:16
Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!


Treasury of Scripture

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove your foot from evil.

turn

Deuteronomy 5:32
Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

Deuteronomy 12:32
What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

Deuteronomy 28:14
And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

remove

Proverbs 16:17
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

Isaiah 1:16
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

Romans 12:9
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

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(27) Turn not aside . . .--Comp. the direction of Joshua 1:7, and the praise accorded to David (1Kings 15:5).

Verse 27. - This verse, with which the teacher closes this discourse, is very closely connected with ver. 26, which it more fully explains. The command is the parallel of ver. 25. As in ver. 25, the gaze is to be concentrated. So here the feet are not to deflect nor turn aside to byways. Nothing is to be permitted to draw one off from the right way, neither adversity, nor prosperity, nor anything which can possess the power of temptation (Bayne and Wardlaw). Remove thy foot from evil. A fuller expression than "depart from evil," of Proverbs 3:7. Both the LXX. and the Vulgate add, "For the Lord knows the ways which are on thy right hand; but they are perverse which are on thy left. He shall make thy paths straight, and shall advance thy ways in peace."



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Do not
אַֽל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

swerve
תֵּט־ (têṭ-)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect Jussive - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5186: To stretch out, spread out, extend, incline, bend

to the right
יָמִ֥ין (yā·mîn)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 3225: The right hand, side, the south

or to the left;
וּשְׂמֹ֑אול (ū·śə·mō·wl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8040: Dark, the north, the left hand

turn
הָסֵ֖ר (hā·sêr)
Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 5493: To turn aside

your feet {away}
רַגְלְךָ֣ (raḡ·lə·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 7272: A foot, a step, the pudenda

from evil.
מֵרָֽע׃ (mê·rā‘)
Preposition | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil


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