New International Version
Avoid it, do not travel on it; turn from it and go on your way.
New Living Translation
Don’t even think about it; don’t go that way. Turn away and keep moving.
English Standard Version
Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.
Berean Study Bible
Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by.
King James Bible
Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
New King James Version
Avoid it, do not travel on it; Turn away from it and pass on.
New American Standard Bible
Avoid it, do not pass by it; Turn away from it and pass on.
NASB 1995
Avoid it, do not pass by it; Turn away from it and pass on.
NASB 1977
Avoid it, do not pass by it; Turn away from it and pass on.
Amplified Bible
Avoid it, do not travel on it; Turn away from it and pass on.
Christian Standard Bible
Avoid it; don’t travel on it. Turn away from it, and pass it by.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Avoid it; don't travel on it. Turn away from it, and pass it by.
American Standard Version
Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Do not pass through the place where they dwell, but turn aside and pass from it.
Brenton Septuagint Translation
In whatever place they shall pitch their camp, go not thither; but turn from them, and pass away.
Contemporary English Version
Turn aside and keep going. Stay away from them.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it.
English Revised Version
Avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass on.
Good News Translation
Don't do it! Keep away from evil! Refuse it and go on your way.
GOD'S WORD® Translation
Avoid it. Do not walk near it. Turn away from it, and keep on walking.
International Standard Version
Avoid it! Don't travel on it! Turn away from it, and pass on by.
JPS Tanakh 1917
Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on.
Literal Standard Version
Avoid it, do not pass over into it, ' Turn aside from it, and pass on.
NET Bible
Avoid it, do not go on it; turn away from it, and go on.
New Heart English Bible
Avoid it, and do not pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
World English Bible
Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
Young's Literal Translation
Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.
Additional Translations ... A Father's Instruction… 14Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers. 1516For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.… Berean Study Bible · Download
Proverbs 4:14
Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.
Proverbs 4:16
For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. Proverbs 5:8
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: Proverbs 6:5
Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. Exodus 23:7
Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
Verse 15. - Avoid it;p'raehu, the kal imperative of para, properly, 'to let go,' hence 'to reject, or abhor.' (On the verb, see Proverbs 1:25, where it is rendered, 'set at naught.') The same verb also occurs in Proverbs 8:33; Proverbs 13:18; Proverbs 15:32. It; i.e. the way. The suffix of the verb in the original is feminine, 'avoid her;' derek, 'the way,' being common. Turn from it ( s'teh mealayv). The original is a pregnant expression equivalent to 'turn aside from it, so that you do not come to stand upon it.' The word mealayv, equivalent to the Latin desuper ea, has much the same force as the French de dessus and the Italian di sopra (Delitzsch). The verb satah is, as in the Authorized Version, 'to turn, or go aside.' Pass away;avor, kal imperative of avar, 'to pass over,' equivalent to Latin transire, here means 'to pass on, or along,' 'to go beyond,' like the German Ger weiter gehn. The counsel of the father is not only 'turn aside from,' but 'put the greatest possible distance between you and it.' The injunction, so absolutely stated, to have nothing to do with sin, is required, if not indeed prompted, by the knowledge of the fact that youth, confident in its own power of resistance, frequently indulges in the fatal mistake of imagining that it can dally with sin with impunity. The only course compatible with safety is to entirely avoid it.
Parallel Commentaries ...
Hebrew Avoid it;פְּרָעֵ֥הוּ(pə·rā·‘ê·hū)Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6544: To loosen, to expose, dismiss, absolve, begindo notאַל־(’al-)Adverb
Strong's 408: Nottravel on it.תַּעֲבָר־(ta·‘ă·ḇār-)Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass onTurnשְׂטֵ֖ה(śə·ṭêh)Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 7847: To deviate from dutyfrom itמֵעָלָ֣יו(mê·‘ā·lāw)Preposition-m | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, againstand pass on by.וַעֲבֽוֹר׃(wa·‘ă·ḇō·wr)Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on
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