Proverbs 4:20 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²⁰ 7 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ My son, attend to my words; Incline thine ear unto my sayings.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ My son, attend to my words; consent and submit to my sayings.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ My son, attend to my words; Incline thine ear unto my sayings.

Common English Bible

²⁰ My son, pay attention to my words. Bend your ear to my speech.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ My son, pay attention to my sermons, and incline your ear to my eloquent words.

Proverbs 4:20 Cross References

Psalm 34:12

9 Many are the afflictions of the just; but out of them all will the Lord deliver them.

Psalm 78:1

That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse end exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Psalm 90:12

He shall say to the Lord: Thou art my protector, and my refuge: my God, in him will I trust.

Proverbs 2:2

Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path.

Proverbs 22:18

5 Lest perhaps thou learn his ways, and take scandal to thy soul.

Proverbs 5:1

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.

Proverbs 7:1

Who passeth through the street by the corner, and goeth nigh the way of her house.

Isaiah 55:3

1 So shall my word be, which shall go forth from my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall do whatsoever I please, and shall prosper in the things for which I sent it.

Matthew 17:5

3 Then the disciples understood, that he had spoken to them of John the Baptist.