Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

Accept what he has to teach you, and treasure his words in your heart.

New American Standard Bible

“Please receive instruction from His mouth
And establish His words in your heart.

King James Version

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

Holman Bible

Receive instruction from His mouth,
and place His sayings in your heart.

A Conservative Version

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

American Standard Version

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, And lay up his words in thy heart.

Amplified


“Please receive the law and instruction from His mouth
And establish His words in your heart and keep them.

Bible in Basic English

Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.

Darby Translation

Receive, I pray thee, instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

Julia Smith Translation

Take now the law from his mouth, and set his words in thy heart

King James 2000

Receive, I pray you, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Please receive instruction from his mouth, and place his words in your heart.

Modern King James verseion

Please receive the Law from His mouth and lay up His words in your heart.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Receive the law at his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

NET Bible

Accept instruction from his mouth and store up his words in your heart.

New Heart English Bible

Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

The Emphasized Bible

Accept, I beseech thee, from his mouth - instruction, - and lay up his sayings in thy heart.

Webster

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

World English Bible

Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

Youngs Literal Translation

Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
לקח 
Laqach 
Usage: 966

I pray thee, the law
תּרה תּורה 
Towrah 
law
Usage: 219

and lay up
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

אמר 
'emer 
Usage: 49

References

Fausets

Job

Hastings

Job

Context Readings

Eliphaz's Third Speech

21 "Get to know God, and you'll be at peace with him, and then prosperity will come to you. 22 Accept what he has to teach you, and treasure his words in your heart. 23 "If you return to the Almighty you'll be restored, as you remove iniquity from your household.



Cross References

Job 23:12

I haven't wandered away from the commands that he has spoken; I've treasured what he has said more than my own meals."

Psalm 119:11

I have stored what you have said in my heart, so I won't sin against you.

Deuteronomy 4:1-2

"Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and the ordinances that I'm teaching you to observe so you may live and go in to take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is about to give you.

Deuteronomy 6:6-9

Let these words that I'm commanding you today be always on your heart.

Proverbs 2:1-9

My son, if you accept my words, and treasure my instructions

Proverbs 4:4

he taught me and told me, "Let your heart fully embrace what I have to say; keep my commandments and live!

Proverbs 4:21

Do not let them out of your sight; keep them within your heart.

Jeremiah 15:16

Your words were found, and I consumed them. Your words were joy and my hearts delight, because I bear your name, LORD God of the Heavenly Armies.

Matthew 12:35

A good person brings good things out of a good treasure house, and an evil person brings evil things out of an evil treasure house.

Matthew 13:52

Then he told them, "That is why every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom from heaven is like the master of a household who brings both new and old things out of his treasure chest."

Luke 2:19

However, Mary continued to treasure all these things in her heart and to ponder them.

Luke 2:51

Then he went back with them, returning to Nazareth and remaining in submission to them. His mother continued to treasure all these things in her heart.

1 Thessalonians 4:1-2

Now then, brothers, you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, as in fact you are doing. We ask and encourage you in the Lord to do so even more.

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