Proverbs 1:15
New International Version
my son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths;

New Living Translation
My child, don’t go along with them! Stay far away from their paths.

English Standard Version
my son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths,

Berean Standard Bible
my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.

King James Bible
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

New King James Version
My son, do not walk in the way with them, Keep your foot from their path;

New American Standard Bible
My son, do not walk on the way with them. Keep your feet from their path,

NASB 1995
My son, do not walk in the way with them. Keep your feet from their path,

NASB 1977
My son, do not walk in the way with them. Keep your feet from their path,

Legacy Standard Bible
My son, do not walk in the way with them. Withhold your feet from their pathway,

Amplified Bible
My son, do not walk on the road with them; Keep your foot [far] away from their path,

Christian Standard Bible
my son, don’t travel that road with them or set foot on their path,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
my son, don’t travel that road with them or set foot on their path,

American Standard Version
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
My son, do not go in the way with them, but withhold your foot from their paths,

Brenton Septuagint Translation
go not in the way with them, but turn aside thy foot from their paths:

Contemporary English Version
Don't follow anyone like that or do what they do.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths.

English Revised Version
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
My son, do not follow them in their way. Do not even set foot on their path,

Good News Translation
My child, don't go with people like that. Stay away from them.

International Standard Version
My son, do not go along with them, and keep your feet away from their paths!

JPS Tanakh 1917
My son, walk not thou in the way with them, Restrain thy foot from their path;

Literal Standard Version
My son! Do not go in the way with them, | Withhold your foot from their path,

Majority Standard Bible
my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.

New American Bible
My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path!

NET Bible
My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;

New Revised Standard Version
my child, do not walk in their way, keep your foot from their paths;

New Heart English Bible
My son, do not walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

Webster's Bible Translation
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

World English Bible
my son, don’t walk on the path with them. Keep your foot from their path,

Young's Literal Translation
My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Enticement of Sin
14Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse”— 15my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path. 16For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.…

Cross References
Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.

Psalm 119:101
I have kept my feet from every evil path, that I may keep Your word.

Proverbs 1:14
Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse"--

Proverbs 4:14
Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.

Proverbs 4:27
Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your feet away from evil.

Proverbs 24:1
Do not envy wicked men or desire their company;


Treasury of Scripture

My son, walk not you in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path:

walk

Proverbs 4:14,15
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men

Proverbs 9:6
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Proverbs 13:20
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

refrain

Proverbs 4:27
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

Proverbs 5:8
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

Psalm 119:101
I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.

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Proverbs 1
1. The use of the proverbs
7. An exhortation to fear God, and believe his word
10. to avoid the enticing of sinners
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Verse 15. - My son, walk not thou in the way with them. The admonitory strain of ver. 10 is again resumed, and in vers. 16-19 the teacher states the reasons which should dissuade youth from listening to the temptations of sinners. My son. The recurrence of these words for the third time in this address marks the affectionate interest, the loving solicitude, in which the admonition is addressed. Walk not thou. Immediate and entire abandonment is counselled. The warning is practically a repetition of ver. 10, and is given again in Proverbs 4:14, "Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men." Way; דֶרֶך (derek) means, figuratively, the way of living and acting (Gesenius). "Mores et consuetudines" (Bayne); cf. Proverbs 12:15, "the fool's way;" 22:25; and Psalm 1:1. The meaning is "associate not with them, have no dealings whatever with them." Refrain thy foot from their path; i.e. keep back thy foot, or make not one step in compliance, resist the very first solicitations to evil. Compare the legal maxim, Initiis obsta. Refrain; מְגַע (m'na) is from מָנַע (mana), "to keep back, restrain;' LXX., ἔκκινον (cf. Psalm 119:101, "I have refrained my feet from every evil way;" Jeremiah 14:10, "Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet"). Restraining the foot carries with it indirectly the natural inclination or propensity of the heart, even of the good, towards evil (Cartwright). Foot (רֶגֶל regel) is, of course, used metaphorically, and means less the member of the body than the idea suggested by it; hence the use of the singular (Gejerus, Delitzsch). Bayne remarks that the Hebrews understood this passage as meaning "neither in public nor private life have any dealings with sinners." Path (נָתִיב, nathiv) is a beaten path, a pathway, a byway; from the unused root נָתַב (nathav), "to tread, trample;" and hence, while "way" may mean the great public high road, "path" may stand for the bypath, less frequented or public. The same distinction probably occurs in Psalm 25:4, "Show me thy ways, O Lord; and teach me thy paths."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
my son,
בְּנִ֗י (bə·nî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1121: A son

do not
אַל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

walk
תֵּלֵ֣ךְ (tê·lêḵ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

the road
בְּדֶ֣רֶךְ (bə·ḏe·reḵ)
Preposition-b | Noun - common singular
Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

with them
אִתָּ֑ם (’it·tām)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among

or set
מְנַ֥ע (mə·na‘)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 4513: To debar, from benefit, injury

foot
רַ֝גְלְךָ֗ (raḡ·lə·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 7272: A foot, a step, the pudenda

upon their path.
מִנְּתִיבָתָֽם׃ (min·nə·ṯî·ḇā·ṯām)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5410: Path, pathway


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