|
|
Proverbs 4:20-27 Parallel Bible Translations
|
DRB Douay-Rheims Bible |
ESV English Standard Version |
NIV New International Version |
Add |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear 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 | Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy 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 that find them, and health to all 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 | With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it. | 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 | Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee. | 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 thy eyes look straight on, and let thy eyelids go before thy steps. | 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 | Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established. | 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 | 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. | 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. | |
| Read Douay-Rheims Bible Public domain. |
Read English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles. |
Read New International Version Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. |
||
