Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Incline not to the right or to the left, Turn aside thy foot from evil!

New American Standard Bible

Do not turn to the right nor to the left;
Turn your foot from evil.

King James Version

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

Holman Bible

Don’t turn to the right or to the left;
keep your feet away from evil.

International Standard Version

Do not turn to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

A Conservative Version

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left. Remove thy foot from evil.

American Standard Version

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: Remove thy foot from evil.

Amplified


Do not turn away to the right nor to the left [where evil may lurk];
Turn your foot from [the path of] evil.

Bible in Basic English

Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.

Darby Translation

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy foot from evil.

Julia Smith Translation

Thou shalt not decline to the right and the left: turn away thy foot from evil

King James 2000

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove your foot from evil.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Do not swerve right or left; remove your foot from evil.

Modern King James verseion

Do not turn to the right hand nor to the left; remove your foot from evil.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Turn not aside, neither to the righthand nor to the left; but withhold thy foot from evil.

NET Bible

Do not turn to the right or to the left; turn yourself away from evil.

New Heart English Bible

Do not turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

The Emphasized Bible

Decline not, to the right hand or to the left, - Turn away thy foot from wickedness.

Webster

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

World English Bible

Don't turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
not to the right hand
ימין 
Yamiyn 
Usage: 139

nor to the left
שׂמאל שׂמאול 
S@mo'wl 
Usage: 54

שׂוּר סוּר 
Cuwr 
Usage: 301

רגל 
Regel 
Usage: 247

Context Readings

Staying The Course

26 Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways are established. 27 Incline not to the right or to the left, Turn aside thy foot from evil!


Cross References

Deuteronomy 5:32

And ye have observed to do as Jehovah your God hath commanded you, ye turn not aside -- right or left;

Deuteronomy 28:14

and thou dost not turn aside from all the words which I am commanding you to-day -- right or left -- to go after other gods, to serve them.

Joshua 1:7

Only, be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded thee; thou dost not turn aside from it right or left, so that thou dost act wisely in every place whither thou goest;

Deuteronomy 12:32

The whole thing which I am commanding you -- it ye observe to do; thou dost not add unto it, nor diminish from it.

Isaiah 1:16

Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.

Proverbs 16:17

A highway of the upright is, 'Turn from evil,' Whoso is preserving his soul is watching his way.

Romans 12:9

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

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