Proverbs 4:26

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Make level paths for your feet, and all your ways will be sure.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Carefully consider the path for your feet,and all your ways will be established.

Hebrew Names Version
Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

King James Version
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

English Standard Version
Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure.

New Century Version
Be careful what you do, and always do what is right.

New English Translation
Make the path for your feet level, so that all your ways may be established.

Amplified Bible
Consider well and watch carefully the path of your feet, And all your ways will be steadfast and sure.

New American Standard Bible
Watch the path of your feet, And all your ways will be established.

World English Bible
Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Ponder the path of thy feete, and let all thy waies be ordred aright.

Legacy Standard Bible
Watch the track of your feetAnd all your ways will be established.

Contemporary English Version
Know where you are headed, and you will stay on solid ground.

Complete Jewish Bible
Level the path for your feet, let all your ways be properly prepared;

Darby Translation
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be well-ordered.

Easy-to-Read Version
Make sure you are going the right way, and nothing will make you fall.

George Lamsa Translation
Keep your feet away from evil paths; then all your ways shall be firm.

Good News Translation
Plan carefully what you do, and whatever you do will turn out right.

Lexham English Bible
May the path of your foot be balanced and all your ways be sure.

Literal Translation
Study the track of your feet, then all your ways will be established.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Podre the path of thy fete, so shal all yi wayes be sure.

American Standard Version
Make level the path of thy feet, And let all thy ways be established.

Bible in Basic English
Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Make plain the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

King James Version (1611)
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy wayes be established.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ponder the path of thy feete, and let all thy wayes be ordred aright.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Make straight paths for thy feet, and order thy ways aright.

English Revised Version
Make level the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Dresse thou pathis to thi feet, and alle thi weies schulen be stablischid.

Update Bible Version
Make level the path of your feet, And let all your ways be established.

Webster's Bible Translation
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

New King James Version
Ponder the path of your feet, And let all your ways be established.

New Living Translation
Mark out a straight path for your feet; stay on the safe path.

New Life Bible
Watch the path of your feet, and all your ways will be sure.

New Revised Standard
Keep straight the path of your feet, and all your ways will be sure.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Make level the track of thy foot, that, all thy ways, may be directed aright:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established.

Revised Standard Version
Take heed to the path of your feet, then all your ways will be sure.

Young's Literal Translation
Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways [are] established.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Watch the path of your feet And all your ways will be established.

Contextual Overview

²⁰My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. ²¹Do not lose sight of them; keep them within your heart. ²²For they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body. ²³Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life. ²⁴Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech. ²⁵Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead. ²⁶Make level paths for your feet, and all your ways will be sure.²⁷Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your feet away from evil.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ponder: Proverbs 5:6, Psalms 119:59, Ezekiel 18:28, Haggai 1:5, Haggai 1:7, Ephesians 5:15, Ephesians 5:17

let all thy ways be established: or, all thy ways shall be ordered aright, Psalms 37:23, Psalms 40:2, 1 Thessalonians 3:13, 2 Thessalonians 3:3, 1 Peter 5:10

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:14 - thou shalt Joshua 23:6 - that ye Psalms 39:1 - I said Proverbs 14:15 - simple Matthew 7:14 - narrow Hebrews 12:13 - make

Cross-References

Genesis 4:14
Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me."

Genesis 4:15
"Not so!" replied the LORD. "If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold." And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.

Genesis 4:17
And Cain had relations with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain built a city and named it after his son Enoch.

Genesis 4:18
Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methusael, and Methusael was the father of Lamech.

Genesis 12:8
From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.

Genesis 26:25
So he built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there. Isaac's servants also dug a well there.

1 Kings 18:24
Then you may call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD. The God who answers by fire, He is God." And all the people answered, "What you say is good."

Psalms 116:17
I will offer to You a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.

Isaiah 44:5
One will say, 'I belong to the LORD,' another will call himself by the name of Jacob, and still another will write on his hand, 'The LORD's,' and will take the name of Israel."

Isaiah 48:1
Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, who have descended from the line of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD and invoke the God of Israel-but not in truth or righteousness-

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ponder the path of thy feet,.... Consider well what path it is, whether right or wrong; or weigh it in the balances of thought, as Aben Ezra; or rather in the balances of the word, and see whether it agrees with that or not. The Septuagint version is, "make straight paths for thy feet"; to which the author of the epistle to the Hebrews seems to have respect, Hebrews 12:13;

and let all thy walls be established; so as to walk on steadily, constantly, uniformly, and not be easily moved out of the ways of religion and truth. Or, "let all thy ways be prepared", or "directed", or "disposed" c; according to the rule of the divine word. Some render it as a promise, "and all thy ways shall be established" d; when care is taken to look well into them; see 2 Chronicles 20:20.

c יכנו "dirigantur", Tigurine version, Mercerus; "recte apparentur aut disponantur", Vatablus. d "Stabilientur", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus; "constabilientur", Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Speech turned from its true purpose, the wandering eye that leads on to evil, action hasty and inconsiderate, are the natural results where we do not “above all keeping keep our heart” Proverbs 4:23.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 4:26. Ponder the path of thy feet — Weigh well the part thou shouldst act in life. See that thou contract no bad habits.