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Proverbs 4:20-27 Parallel Bible Translations
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| 20 | My son, pay attention to my words and be willing to learn; Open your ears to my sayings. | My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. | My son, pay attention to what I say; turn your ear to my words. | |
| 21 | Do not let them escape from your sight; Keep them in the center of your heart. | Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. | Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart; | |
| 22 | For they are life to those who find them, And healing and health to all their flesh. | For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh. | for they are life to those who find them and health to one’s whole body. | |
| 23 | Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life. | Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. | Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. | |
| 24 | Put away from you a deceitful (lying, misleading) mouth, And put devious lips far from you. | Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you. | Keep your mouth free of perversity; keep corrupt talk far from your lips. | |
| 25 | Let your eyes look directly ahead [toward the path of moral courage] And let your gaze be fixed straight in front of you [toward the path of integrity]. | Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. | Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you. | |
| 26 | Consider well and watch carefully the path of your feet, And all your ways will be steadfast and sure. | Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. | Give careful thought to the paths for your feet and be steadfast in all your ways. | |
| 27 | Do not turn away to the right nor to the left [where evil may lurk]; Turn your foot from [the path of] evil. | Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil. | Do not turn to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil. | |
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