Verse (Click for Chapter) 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! Additional Translations ... Audio Bible 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. Jump to Previous Evil Feet Foot Hand Incline Remove Right Swerve Turn TurningJump to Next Evil Feet Foot Hand Incline Remove Right Swerve Turn TurningProverbs 4 1. persuades to wisdom14. and to show wickedness 20. He exhorts to sanctification (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."
Hebrew Do notאַֽל־ (’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 Links Proverbs 4:27 NIVProverbs 4:27 NLT Proverbs 4:27 ESV Proverbs 4:27 NASB Proverbs 4:27 KJV Proverbs 4:27 BibleApps.com Proverbs 4:27 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 4:27 Chinese Bible Proverbs 4:27 French Bible Proverbs 4:27 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 4:27 Don't turn to the right hand (Prov. Pro Pr) |