Watch the path of your feet, And all your ways will be established.
Parallel translations
- WEB Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.
- KJV Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
- BSB Make a level path for your feet, and all your ways will be sure.
- NKJV Ponder the path of your feet, And let all your ways be established.
- NLT Mark out a straight path for your feet; stay on the safe path.
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Quick answer
Make level paths for your feet and let your ways be sure. Thoughtful, deliberate living keeps one on a stable course.
Overview
The image shifts to the feet: consider your path carefully and establish your ways, removing obstacles and choosing a sure course. Wisdom involves forethought about the direction and consequences of one's conduct. Such ordered living reflects the steadiness God gives to those who walk in his ways (Ps 37:23).
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- Ps 37:23A man’s goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.
- Heb 12:13and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
- Ps 119:5Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!
- 2 Th 3:3But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.
- Hag 1:5Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.
- Hag 1:7This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.
- Prov 5:21For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
- Ps 119:59I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.
- Ezek 18:28Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
- Eph 5:15Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;
- Ps 40:2He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
- Prov 5:6She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.
- 1 Th 3:13to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
- Eph 5:17Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
- 1 Pet 5:10But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
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