²⁵Look straight ahead with honest confidence; don’t hang your head in shame. ²⁶^*Plan carefully what you do, and whatever you do will turn out right. ²⁷Avoid evil and walk straight ahead. Don’t go one step off the right way.

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*4.26: He 12:13

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

Let your eyes look directly forward,

and your gaze be straight before you.

Ponder the path of your feet;

then all your ways will be sure.

Do not swerve to the right or to the left;

turn your foot away from evil.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Let your eyes look straight ahead;

fix your gaze directly before you.

Give careful thought to the paths for your feet

and be steadfast in all your ways.

Do not turn to the right or the left;

keep your foot from evil.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Let your eyes look forward;

fix your gaze straight ahead.

Carefully consider the path for your feet,

and all your ways will be established.

Don’t turn to the right or to the left;

keep your feet away from evil.

NLTNew Living Translation

Look straight ahead,

and fix your eyes on what lies before you.

Mark out a straight path for your feet;

stay on the safe path.

Don’t get sidetracked;

keep your feet from following evil.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

May your eyes look forward

and your gaze be straight before you.

May the path of your foot be balanced

and all your ways be sure.

Do not swerve right or left;

remove your foot from evil.

KJV 1900King James Version

Let thine eyes look right on,

And let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

Ponder the path of thy feet,

And let all thy ways be established.

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left:

Remove thy foot from evil.

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