Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The path of equity wilt thou grant unto the just, O thou most righteous; thou shalt order the path of him that is righteous.

New American Standard Bible

The way of the righteous is smooth;
O Upright One, make the path of the righteous level.

King James Version

The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.

Holman Bible

The path of the righteous is level;
You clear a straight path for the righteous.

International Standard Version

"The path of the righteous is level; O Upright One, you make safe the way of justice.

A Conservative Version

The way of the just is uprightness. Thou who are upright directs the path of the just.

American Standard Version

The way of the just is uprightness: thou that art upright dost direct the path of the just.

Amplified


The way of the righteous [those in right-standing with God—living in moral and spiritual integrity] is smooth and level;
O Upright One, make a level path for the just and righteous.

Bible in Basic English

The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.

Darby Translation

The way of the just is uprightness: thou, the Upright, dost make the path of the just even.

Julia Smith Translation

The way to the just one is straightness: being upright, thou wilt prepare the departing of the just one.

King James 2000

The way of the just is uprightness: you, most upright, do smooth the path of the just.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[The] way of the righteous [is] a straight path; {you clear the level path of the righteous}.

Modern King James verseion

The way of the just is uprightness; O Upright One, weigh the path of the just.

NET Bible

The way of the righteous is level, the path of the righteous that you make is straight.

New Heart English Bible

The way of the righteous is level. O Just One, you make the path of the righteous smooth.

The Emphasized Bible

The path of a righteous man, is, even, - O Upright One! the track of a righteous man, thou makest level.

Webster

The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.

World English Bible

The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.

Youngs Literal Translation

The path for the righteous is uprightness, O upright One, The path of the righteous Thou dost ponder.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The way
ארח 
'orach 
Usage: 59

of the just
צדּיק 
Tsaddiyq 
Usage: 206

פּלס 
Palac 
Usage: 6

the path
מעגּלה מעגּל 
Ma`gal 
Usage: 16

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Yahweh's People Vindicated

6 that they may be trodden under the feet of the simple, and with the steps of the poor. 7 The path of equity wilt thou grant unto the just, O thou most righteous; thou shalt order the path of him that is righteous. 8 Therefore, LORD, we have a respect unto the way of thy judgments; thy name and thy remembrance rejoice the soul.


Cross References

1 Samuel 2:2-4

There is none so holy as the LORD: no, there is none save thou. Neither is there any strength like unto our God.

1 Chronicles 29:17

I know my God, that thou provest the heart and hast pleasure in plainness. And in plainness of mine heart I have willingly given all this. And now I see thy people, which are here in gladness to offer willingly to thee.

Job 27:5-6

God forbid, that I should grant your cause to be right! As for me, until mine end come will I never go from my innocence.

Job 31:6

let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may see my innocence.

Psalm 1:6

For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Psalm 11:4

The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's seat is in heaven. His eyes consider the poor, and his eyelids try the children of men.

Psalm 11:7

For the LORD is righteous, and he loveth righteousness: his countenance will behold the thing that is just.

Psalm 18:23-26

I was also uncorrupt before him, and eschewed my own wickedness. {TYNDALE: But was pure unto him ward, and kept myself from wickedness.}

Proverbs 20:7

Whoso leadeth a godly and an innocent life; happy shall his children be whom he leaveth behind him.

Isaiah 35:8

There shall be foot paths and common streets: this shall be called the holy way. No unclean person shall go through it, for the LORD himself shall go with them that way, and the ignorant shall not err.

Isaiah 42:16

I will bring the blind into the street, that they know not: and lead them in to a foot path, that they are ignorant in. I shall make darkness light before them, and the thing that is crooked to be straight. These things will I do, and not forget them.

Zephaniah 3:5

But the just LORD that doth no unright, was among them, every morning showing them his law clearly, and ceased not. But the ungodly will not learn to be ashamed.

1 Corinthians 4:5

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, which will lighten things that are hid in darkness: and open the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise of God.

2 Corinthians 1:12

Our rejoicing is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in singleness of heart and with godly pureness - and not in fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God - we have had our conversation in the world, and most of all to you-wards.

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, unto the which God ordained us before, that we should walk in them.

1 John 3:7

Little children, let no man beguile you; He that worketh righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

1 John 3:10

And hereby are the sons of God known, and also the sons of the devil. All that work not righteousness, are not of God, nor he that loveth not his brother.

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