Avoiding Immorality
Proverbs 5:6
In 11 translations
- BSB
- She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.
- KJV
- Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
- WEB
- She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.
- ASV
- So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, and she knoweth it not.
- LSV
- The path of life—lest you ponder, || Her paths have moved—you do not know.
- YLT
- The path of life — lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths — thou knowest not.
- DBY
- Lest she should ponder the path of life, her ways wander, she knoweth not [whither].
- DRC
- They walk not by the path of life, her steps are wandering, and unaccountable.
- GNV
- She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moueable: thou canst not knowe them.
- JPS
- Lest she should walk the even path of life, her ways wander, but she knoweth it not.
- LXXE
- For she goes not upon the paths of life; but her ways are slippery, and not easily known.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- אֹ֣רַח חַ֭יִּים פֶּן־תְּפַלֵּ֑ס נָע֥וּ מַ֝עְגְּלֹתֶ֗יהָ לֹ֣א תֵדָֽע׃
- LXX-Br
- Ὁδοὺς γὰρ ζωῆς οὐκ ἐπέρχεται, σφαλεραὶ δὲ αἱ τροχιαὶ αὐτῆς, καὶ οὐκ εὔγνωστοι.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- Proverbs 4:26Make a level path for your feet, and all your ways will be sure.
- Psalms 16:11You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand.
- Proverbs 5:21For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
- Psalms 119:59I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.
- Proverbs 6:12–13A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth, winking his eyes, speaking with his feet, and pointing with his fingers.
- Proverbs 30:20This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
- Proverbs 7:10–21Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart. She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home. Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner. She seizes…
- Proverbs 11:19Genuine righteousness leads to life, but the pursuit of evil brings death.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:9–10The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder, and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they…
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