Proverbs 4:26

Green's Literal Translation

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

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.

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

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.

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

²⁰ My son, pay attention to my words; stretch your ear to what I say; ²¹ let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the center of your heart; ²² for they are life to those who find them, and healing to all his flesh. ²³ Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life. ²⁴ Turn away from you the crooked mouth, and put perverse lips far from you. ²⁵ Let your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids look straight before you. ²⁶ Study the track of your feet, then all your ways will be established. ²⁷ Do not turn to the right hand or to the left; turn your foot aside 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! You have driven me out from the face of the earth today. And I shall be hidden from Your face. And I shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth. And it will be that anyone who finds me shall kill me.

Genesis 4:15
And Jehovah said to him, If anyone kills Cain, he shall be avenged sevenfold. And Jehovah set a mark on Cain, so that anyone who found him should not kill him.

Genesis 4:17
And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he built a city, and he called the name of the city according to the name of his son, Enoch.

Genesis 4:18
And Irad was born to Enoch; and Irad fathered Mehujael And Mehujael fathered Methusael; and Methusael fathered Lamech.

Genesis 12:8
And he moved from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel, and stretched his tent with Bethel toward the sea, and Ai on the east. And he built an altar there to Jehovah, and called on the name of Jehovah.

Genesis 26:25
And he built an altar there and called on the name of Jehovah. And he pitched his tent there. And the slaves of Isaac dug a well there.

1 Kings 18:24
And you shall call on the name of your god; and I, I will call on the name of Jehovah; and it shall be, the god who answers by fire, he is the God. And all the people answered and said, The word is good.

Psalms 116:17
I will sacrifice to You the sacrifice of thanks and will call on the name of Jehovah.

Isaiah 44:5
This one shall say, I am Jehovah's; and this one will call himself by the name of Jacob; and this one shall write with his hand, For Jehovah, and be surnamed by the name of Israel.

Isaiah 48:1
Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out from the waters of Judah, who swear by Jehovah's name and profess by the God of Israel, not in truth or in 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.