Proverbs 23:19
Modern Translations
New International Version
Listen, my son, and be wise, and set your heart on the right path:

New Living Translation
My child, listen and be wise: Keep your heart on the right course.

English Standard Version
Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way.

Berean Study Bible
Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course.

New American Standard Bible
Listen, my son, and be wise, And direct your heart in the way.

NASB 1995
Listen, my son, and be wise, And direct your heart in the way.

NASB 1977
Listen, my son, and be wise, And direct your heart in the way.

Amplified Bible
Listen, my son, and be wise, And direct your heart in the way [of the LORD].

Christian Standard Bible
Listen, my son, and be wise; keep your mind on the right course.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Listen, my son, and be wise; keep your mind on the right course.

Contemporary English Version
Listen to me, my children! Be wise and have enough sense to follow the right path.

Good News Translation
Listen, my child, be wise and give serious thought to the way you live.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
My son, listen, be wise, and keep your mind going in the right direction.

International Standard Version
Listen, my son, and be wise, commit yourself to live God's way.

NET Bible
Listen, my child, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right way.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

New King James Version
Hear, my son, and be wise; And guide your heart in the way.

King James 2000 Bible
Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.

New Heart English Bible
Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path.

World English Bible
Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

American King James Version
Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.

American Standard Version
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way.

A Faithful Version
My son, hear and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.

Darby Bible Translation
Thou, my son, hear and be wise, and direct thy heart in the way.

English Revised Version
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

Webster's Bible Translation
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart in the way.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
O thou my sonne, heare, and bee wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
My sonne geue eare and be wyse, and set straight thyne heart in the way of the Lorde.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
My sonne, ue eare & be wyse, so shal thine hert prospere in the waye.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Hear, my son, and be wise, "" And make your heart blessed in the way,

Young's Literal Translation
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,

Smith's Literal Translation
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart right in the way.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Listen, my son, and be wise, and direct your soul along the way.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Hear, my son, and be wise, and set up my doctrine in your heart.

Lamsa Bible
Hear, my son, and be wise, and fasten my counsel in your heart.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Hear, my son, and be wise, and rightly direct the thoughts of thine heart.
















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