Proverbs 4:27
Modern Translations
New International Version
Do not turn to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil.

New Living Translation
Don’t get sidetracked; keep your feet from following evil.

English Standard Version
Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

Berean Study Bible
Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your feet away from evil.

New American Standard Bible
Do not turn to the right or to the left; Turn your foot from evil.

NASB 1995
Do not turn to the right nor to the left; Turn your foot from evil.

NASB 1977
Do not turn to the right nor to the left; Turn your foot from evil.

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

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Don't turn to the right or to the left; keep your feet away from evil.

Contemporary English Version
Don't make a mistake by turning to the right or the left.

Good News Translation
Avoid evil and walk straight ahead. Don't go one step off the right way.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Do not lean to the right or to the left. Walk away from evil.

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

NET Bible
Do not turn to the right or to the left; turn yourself away from evil.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

New King James Version
Do not turn to the right or the left; Remove your foot from evil.

King James 2000 Bible
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove your foot from evil.

New Heart English Bible
Do not turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

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

American King James Version
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove your foot from evil.

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

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

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Turne not to the right hande, nor to the left, but remooue thy foote from euill.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Turne not aside, neither to the right hande nor to the left: but wihholde thy foote from euyll.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Turne not asyde, nether to the right hande ner to the lefte, but witholde thy fote from euell.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Do not incline [to] the right or to the left, "" Turn aside your foot from evil!

Young's Literal Translation
Incline not to the right or to the left, Turn aside thy foot from evil!

Smith's Literal Translation
Thou shalt not decline to the right and the left: turn away thy foot from evil.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Turn aside, neither to the right, nor to the left; yet turn your foot away from evil. For the Lord knows the ways that are on the right, and truly, those that are on the left are perverse. But he himself will make your courses straight. Then your journey will advance in peace.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Do not turn aside to the right or to the left, but remove your foot from evil.

Lamsa Bible
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; but remove your foot from evil.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; Remove thy foot from evil.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Turn not aside to the right hand nor to the left, but turn away thy foot from an evil way: for God knows the ways on the right hand, but those on the left are crooked:and he will make thy ways straight, and will guide thy steps in peace.
















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