New Revised Standard Version
The wicked put on a bold face, but the upright give thought to their ways.

Contemporary English Version
Wicked people bluff their way, but God's people think before they take a step.

New American Bible
The face of the wicked hardens, but the upright maintains a straight course.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The wicked man impudently hardeneth his face: but he that is righteous, correcteth his way.

The wicked man impudently hardeneth his face: but he that is righteous, correcteth his way.

hardeneth

Proverbs 28:14 Blessed is the man that is always fearful: but he that is hardened in mind shall fall into evil.

Proverbs 29:1 The man that with a stiff neck despiseth him that reproveth him, shall suddenly be destroyed: and health shall not follow him.

Jeremiah 3:2,3 Lift up thy eyes on high: and see where thou hast not prostituted thyself: thou didst sit in the ways, waiting for them as a robber in the wilderness: and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications, and with thy wickedness. . . .

Jeremiah 5:3 O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them, and they have not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than the rock, and they have refused to return.

Jeremiah 8:12 They are confounded, because they have committed abomination: yea rather they are not confounded with confusion, and they have not known how to blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they shall fall, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 44:16,17 As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken to thee: . . .

he directeth

Proverbs 11:5 The justice of the righteous shall deliver them: and the unjust shall be caught in their own snares.

Psalm 119:59 I have thought on my ways: and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

Ezekiel 18:28 Because he considereth and turneth away himself from all his iniquities which he hath wrought, he shall surely live, and not die.

Haggai 1:5,7 And now thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts to consider your ways. . . .

Haggai 2:15,18,19 And now consider in your hearts, from this day and upward, before there was a stone laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord. . . .

Luke 15:17,18 And returning to himself, he said: How many hired servants in my father's house abound with bread, and I here perish with hunger! . . .

1 Thessalonians 3:11 Now God himself and our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.