Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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.

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.

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.

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 Tread it down doth a foot, Feet of the poor -- steps of the weak. 7 The path for the righteous is uprightness, O upright One, The path of the righteous Thou dost ponder. 8 Also, in the path of Thy judgments, O Jehovah, we have waited for Thee, To Thy name and to Thy remembrance Is the desire of the soul.


Cross References

1 Samuel 2:2-4

There is none holy like Jehovah, For there is none save Thee, And there is no rock like our God.

1 Chronicles 29:17

'And I have known, my God, that Thou art trying the heart, and uprightness dost desire; I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these: and now, Thy people who are found here I have seen with joy to offer willingly to Thee.

Job 27:5-6

Pollution to me -- if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me.

Job 31:6

He doth weigh me in righteous balances, And God doth know my integrity.

Psalm 1:6

For Jehovah is knowing the way of the righteous, And the way of the wicked is lost!

Psalm 11:4

Jehovah is in his holy temple: Jehovah -- in the heavens is His throne. His eyes see -- His eyelids try the sons of men.

Psalm 11:7

For righteous is Jehovah, Righteousness He hath loved, The upright doth His countenance see!'

Psalm 18:23-26

And I am perfect with him, And I keep myself from mine iniquity.

Proverbs 20:7

The righteous is walking habitually in his integrity, O the happiness of his sons after him!

Isaiah 35:8

And a highway hath been there, and a way, And the 'way of holiness' is called to it, Not pass over it doth the unclean, And He Himself is by them, Whoso is going in the way -- even fools err not.

Isaiah 42:16

And I have caused the blind to go, In a way they have not known, In paths they have not known I cause them to tread, I make a dark place before them become light, And unlevelled places become a plain, These are the things I have done to them, And I have not forsaken them.

Zephaniah 3:5

Jehovah is righteous in her midst, He doth not do perverseness, Morning by morning His judgment he giveth to the light, It hath not been lacking, And the perverse doth not know shame.

1 Corinthians 4:5

so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

Ephesians 2:10

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

1 John 3:7

Little children, let no one lead you astray; he who is doing the righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous,

1 John 3:10

In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,

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