Proverbs 4:12 {13}
Good News Translation
Nothing will stand in your way if you walk wisely, and you will not stumble when you run.

New Revised Standard Version
When you walk, your step will not be hampered; and if you run, you will not stumble.

Contemporary English Version
Your road won't be blocked, and you won't stumble when you run.

New American Bible
When you walk, your step will not be impeded, and should you run, you will not stumble.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life.

thou goest

Proverbs 6:22 Because the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

2 Samuel 22:37 Thou shalt enlarge my steps under me: and my ankles shall not fail.

Job 18:7,8 The step of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down headlong. . . .

Psalm 18:36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; and my feet are not weakened.

thou shalt

Proverbs 4:19 My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.

Proverbs 3:23 If thou sleep, thou shalt not fear: thou shalt rest, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

Psalm 91:11,12 For he hath given his angels charge over thee; to keep thee in all thy ways. . . .

Psalm 119:165 Much peace have they that love thy law, and to them there is no stumbling block.

Jeremiah 31:9 They shall come with weeping: and I will bring them back in mercy: and I will bring them through the torrents of waters in a right way, and they shall not stumble in it: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

John 4:39-42 Now of that city many of the Samaritans believed in him, for the word of the woman giving testimony: He told me all things whatsoever I have done. . . .

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Proverbs 3:22 Then shalt thou walk confidently in thy way, and thy foot shall not stumble:

1 Peter 2:8 And a stone of stumbling and a rock of scandal, to them who stumble at the word, neither do believe, whereunto also they are set.

1 John 2:10,11 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light: and there is no scandal in him. . . .

Context
A Father's Instruction
11Which when thou shalt have entered, thy steps shall not be straitened, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not meet a stumblingblock. 12Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life.13Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:37
Thou shalt enlarge my steps under me: and my ankles shall not fail.

Job 18:7
The step of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down headlong.

Psalm 18:36
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; and my feet are not weakened.

Psalm 91:11
For he hath given his angels charge over thee; to keep thee in all thy ways.

Psalm 119:45
And I walked at large: because I have sought after thy commandments.

Proverbs 3:23
If thou sleep, thou shalt not fear: thou shalt rest, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

Proverbs 4:11
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