Proverbs 16:7
New International Version
When the LORD takes pleasure in anyone’s way, he causes their enemies to make peace with them.

New Living Translation
When people’s lives please the LORD, even their enemies are at peace with them.

English Standard Version
When a man’s ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Berean Standard Bible
When a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even the man’s enemies live at peace with him.

King James Bible
When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

New King James Version
When a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

New American Standard Bible
When a person’s ways are pleasing to the LORD, He causes even his enemies to make peace with him.

NASB 1995
When a man’s ways are pleasing to the LORD, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

NASB 1977
When a man’s ways are pleasing to the LORD, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Legacy Standard Bible
When a man’s ways are pleasing to Yahweh, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Amplified Bible
When a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Christian Standard Bible
When a person’s ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

American Standard Version
When a man's ways please Jehovah, He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The ways of a man are by the pleasure of LORD JEHOVAH; he also will repay his enemies.The beginning of a good way is to do justly; and it is more acceptable with God than to offer sacrifices.

Contemporary English Version
When we please the LORD, even our enemies make friends with us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When the ways of man shall please the Lord, he will convert even his enemies to peace.

English Revised Version
When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When a person's ways are pleasing to the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Good News Translation
When you please the LORD, you can make your enemies into friends.

International Standard Version
When a person's ways please the LORD, even his enemies will be at peace with him.

JPS Tanakh 1917
When a man's ways please the LORD, He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Literal Standard Version
When a man’s ways please YHWH, even his enemies, | He causes to be at peace with him.

Majority Standard Bible
When a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even the man’s enemies live at peace with him.

New American Bible
When the LORD is pleased with someone’s ways, he makes even enemies be at peace with them.

NET Bible
When a person's ways are pleasing to the LORD, he even reconciles his enemies to himself.

New Revised Standard Version
When the ways of people please the LORD, he causes even their enemies to be at peace with them.

New Heart English Bible
When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Webster's Bible Translation
When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

World English Bible
When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Young's Literal Translation
When a man's ways please Jehovah, even his enemies, He causeth to be at peace with him.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Reply of the Tongue is from the LORD
6By loving devotion and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns aside from evil. 7When a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even the man’s enemies live at peace with him. 8Better a little with righteousness than great gain with injustice.…

Cross References
1 Peter 3:13
Who can harm you if you are zealous for what is good?

Genesis 33:4
Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.

Exodus 3:21
And I will grant this people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that when you leave, you will not go away empty-handed.

2 Chronicles 17:10
And the dread of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that surrounded Judah, so that they did not make war against Jehoshaphat.

Proverbs 3:17
All her ways are pleasant, and all her paths are peaceful.

Proverbs 16:8
Better a little with righteousness than great gain with injustice.

Jeremiah 39:12
"Take him, look after him, and do not let any harm come to him; do for him whatever he says."


Treasury of Scripture

When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

please

Psalm 69:31
This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

Romans 8:31
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

Philippians 4:18
But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.

he

Genesis 27:41
And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.

Genesis 32:6,7,28
And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him…

Genesis 33:4
And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.

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(7) When a man's ways please the Lord . . .--Comp. Genesis 26:28; 2Chronicles 17:10-11.

Verse 7. - When a man's ways please the Lord, which they can do only when they are religious, just, and charitable. He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him; to submit themselves. Experience proves that nothing succeeds like success. Where a man is prosperous and things go well with him, even ill-wishers are content to east away or to dissemble their dislike, and to live at peace with him. Thus Abimelech King of Gerar fawned upon Isaac because he saw that the Lord was with him (Genesis 26:27, etc.). This is the worldly side of the maxim. It has a higher aspect, and intimates the far reaching influence of goodness - how it disarms opposition, arouses reverence and love, gives no occasion for disputes, and spreads around an atmosphere of peace. To the Jews the maxim was taught by external circumstances. While they were doing the will of the Lord, their land was to be preserved from hostile attack (Exodus 34:24; 2 Chronicles 17:10). And Christians learn that it is only when they obey and fear God that they can overcome the assaults of the enemies of their soul - the devil, the world, and the flesh Talmud, "He who is agreeable to God is equally agreeable to men."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
When a man’s
אִ֑ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

ways
דַּרְכֵי־ (dar·ḵê-)
Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

please
בִּרְצ֣וֹת (bir·ṣō·wṯ)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 7521: To be pleased with, to satisfy a, debt

the LORD,
יְ֭הוָה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

He makes even
גַּם־ (gam-)
Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

[the man’s] enemies
א֝וֹיְבָ֗יו (’ō·wy·ḇāw)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 341: Hating, an adversary

live at peace
יַשְׁלִ֥ם (yaš·lim)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7999: To be safe, to be, completed, to be friendly, to reciprocate

with him.
אִתּֽוֹ׃ (’it·tōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among


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