Proverbs 4:20
Modern Translations
New International Version
My son, pay attention to what I say; turn your ear to my words.

New Living Translation
My child, pay attention to what I say. Listen carefully to my words.

English Standard Version
My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

Berean Study Bible
My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

New American Standard Bible
My son, pay attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.

NASB 1995
My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.

NASB 1977
My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.

Amplified Bible
My son, pay attention to my words and be willing to learn; Open your ears to my sayings.

Christian Standard Bible
My son, pay attention to my words; listen closely to my sayings.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My son, pay attention to my words; listen closely to my sayings.

Contemporary English Version
My child, listen carefully to everything I say.

Good News Translation
My child, pay attention to what I say. Listen to my words.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
My son, pay attention to my words. Open your ears to what I say.

International Standard Version
My son, pay attention to my words, and listen closely to what I say.

NET Bible
My child, pay attention to my words; listen attentively to my sayings.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

New King James Version
My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.

King James 2000 Bible
My son, attend to my words; incline your ear unto my sayings.

New Heart English Bible
My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

World English Bible
My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

American King James Version
My son, attend to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

American Standard Version
My son, attend to my words; Incline thine ear unto my sayings.

A Faithful Version
My son, attend to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

Darby Bible Translation
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

English Revised Version
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

Webster's Bible Translation
My son, attend to my words; incline thy ear to my sayings.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
My sonne, hearken vnto my wordes, incline thine eare vnto my sayings.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
My sonne marke my wordes, and encline thyne eare vnto my sayinges:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
My sonne, marcke my wordes, and enclyne thine eare vnto my saynges.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
My son, give attention to my words, "" Incline your ear to my sayings,

Young's Literal Translation
My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear,

Smith's Literal Translation
My son, attend to my word; incline thine ear to my sayings.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.

Catholic Public Domain Version
My son, pay attention to my sermons, and incline your ear to my eloquent words.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
My son, give ear to my words and incline your ear to my speech.

Lamsa Bible
My son, attend to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
My son, attend to my words; Incline thine ear unto my sayings.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
My son, attend to my speech; and apply thine ear to my words:
















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