Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Receive instruction from His mouth,
and place His sayings in your heart.

New American Standard Bible

“Please receive instruction from His mouth
And establish His words in your heart.

King James Version

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

International Standard Version

Accept what he has to teach you, and treasure his words in your heart.

A Conservative Version

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

American Standard Version

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, And lay up his words in thy heart.

Amplified


“Please receive the law and instruction from His mouth
And establish His words in your heart and keep them.

Bible in Basic English

Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.

Darby Translation

Receive, I pray thee, instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

Julia Smith Translation

Take now the law from his mouth, and set his words in thy heart

King James 2000

Receive, I pray you, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Please receive instruction from his mouth, and place his words in your heart.

Modern King James verseion

Please receive the Law from His mouth and lay up His words in your heart.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Receive the law at his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

NET Bible

Accept instruction from his mouth and store up his words in your heart.

New Heart English Bible

Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

The Emphasized Bible

Accept, I beseech thee, from his mouth - instruction, - and lay up his sayings in thy heart.

Webster

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

World English Bible

Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

Youngs Literal Translation

Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
לקח 
Laqach 
Usage: 966

I pray thee, the law
תּרה תּורה 
Towrah 
law
Usage: 219

and lay up
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

אמר 
'emer 
Usage: 49

References

Fausets

Job

Hastings

Job

Context Readings

Eliphaz's Third Speech

21 Come to terms with God and be at peace;
in this way good will come to you.
22 Receive instruction from His mouth,
and place His sayings in your heart.
23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be renewed.
If you banish injustice from your tent



Cross References

Job 23:12

I have not departed from the commands of His lips;
I have treasured the words of His mouth
more than my daily food.

Psalm 119:11

I have treasured Your word in my heart
so that I may not sin against You.

Deuteronomy 4:1-2

“Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live, enter, and take possession of the land Yahweh, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

Deuteronomy 6:6-9

These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.

Proverbs 2:1-9

My son, if you accept my words
and store up my commands within you,

Proverbs 4:4

he taught me and said:
“Your heart must hold on to my words.
Keep my commands and live.

Proverbs 4:21

Don’t lose sight of them;
keep them within your heart.

Jeremiah 15:16

Your words were found, and I ate them.
Your words became a delight to me
and the joy of my heart,
for I am called by Your name,
Yahweh God of Hosts.

Matthew 12:35

A good man produces good things from his storeroom of good, and an evil man produces evil things from his storeroom of evil.

Matthew 13:52

“Therefore,” He said to them, “every student of Scripture instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who brings out of his storeroom what is new and what is old.”

Luke 2:19

But Mary was treasuring up all these things in her heart and meditating on them.

Luke 2:51

Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth and was obedient to them. His mother kept all these things in her heart.

1 Thessalonians 4:1-2

Finally then, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us how you must walk and please God—as you are doing—do so even more.

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