Verse 27
Proverbs 4:27
GOD'S WORD Translation
27
Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left.
Remove your foot from evil.
Original Language Text
hebrew
אַֽל תֵּט יָמִ֥ין וּ/שְׂמֹ֑אול הָסֵ֖ר רַגְלְ/ךָ֣ מֵ/רָֽע
English Translation
Do not lean to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 4 Context
1
Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction.
Pay attention and know understanding;
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2
for I give you sound learning.
Don’t forsake my law.
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3
For I was a son to my father,
tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
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4
He taught me, and said to me:
“Let your heart retain my words.
Keep my commandments, and live.
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5
Get wisdom.
Get understanding.
Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.
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6
Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you.
Love her, and she will keep you.
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7
Wisdom is supreme.
Get wisdom.
Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
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Esteem her, and she will exalt you.
She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.
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9
She will give to your head a garland of grace.
She will deliver a crown of splendor to you.”
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Listen, my son, and receive my sayings.
The years of your life will be many.
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I have taught you in the way of wisdom.
I have led you in straight paths.
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When you go, your steps will not be hampered.
When you run, you will not stumble.
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Take firm hold of instruction.
Don’t let her go.
Keep her, for she is your life.
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14
Don’t enter into the path of the wicked.
Don’t walk in the way of evil men.
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15
Avoid it, and don’t pass by it.
Turn from it, and pass on.
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For they don’t sleep, unless they do evil.
Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall....
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For they eat the bread of wickedness,
and drink the wine of violence.
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But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light,
that shines more and more until the perfect...
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The way of the wicked is like darkness.
They don’t know what they stumble over.
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20
My son, attend to my words.
Turn your ear to my sayings.
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21
Let them not depart from your eyes.
Keep them in the center of your heart.
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22
For they are life to those who find them,
and health to their whole body.
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23
Keep your heart with all diligence,
for out of it is the wellspring of life.
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24
Put away from yourself a perverse mouth.
Put corrupt lips far from you.
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25
Let your eyes look straight ahead.
Fix your gaze directly before you.
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26
Make the path of your feet level.
Let all of your ways be established.
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27
Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left.
Remove your foot from evil.