My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path:
Proverbs 4:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: Remove thy foot from evil. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: Remove thy foot from evil. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Turn not aside to the right hand or to the left; remove your foot from evil. American Standard Version (1901) Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: Remove thy foot from evil. Common English Bible Don’t deviate a bit to the right or the left; turn your feet away from evil. Catholic Public Domain Version Turn aside, neither to the right, nor to the left; yet turn your foot away from evil. For the Lord knows the ways that are on the right, and truly, those that are on the left are perverse. But he himself will make your courses straight. Then your journey will advance in peace. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path:
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: He that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil:
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
What thing soever I command you, that shall ye observe to do: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
and shalt not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
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.
Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest have good success whithersoever thou goest.