Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

Please receive instruction from his mouth, and place his words 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.

Holman Bible

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

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 "Please reconcile yourself with him, and be at peace; {in this way}, good will come to you. 22 Please receive instruction from his mouth, and place his words in your heart. 23 If you return to Shaddai, you will be restored; [if] you remove wickedness from your tent,



Cross References

Job 23:12

[From] the commandment of his lips, indeed I have not departed; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily food.

Psalm 119:11

In my heart I have hidden your word, so that I may not sin against you.

Deuteronomy 4:1-2

"Now, Israel, listen to the rules and to the regulations that I [am] teaching you to do, in order that you may live and you may go [in] and you may take possession of the land that Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, [is] giving to you.

Deuteronomy 6:6-9

And these words that I am commanding you {today} shall be on your heart.

Proverbs 2:1-9

My child, if you will receive my sayings, and hide my commands with you,

Proverbs 4:4

he taught me and said to me, "May your heart hold fast [to] my words; guard my commandments and live.

Proverbs 4:21

May they not escape from your {sight}; keep them in [the] midst of your heart.

Jeremiah 15:16

Your words were found and I ate them, and your words became to me as jubilation, even as the joy of my heart, for your name is called on me, Yahweh God of hosts.

Matthew 12:35

The good person from his good treasury brings out good [things], and the evil person from his evil treasury brings out evil [things].

Matthew 13:52

And he said to them, "For this [reason] every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of the house who brings out of his storeroom new [things] and old [things]."

Luke 2:19

But Mary treasured up all these words, pondering [them] in her heart.

Luke 2:51

And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was submitting to them. And his mother treasured all these things in her heart.

1 Thessalonians 4:1-2

Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you and appeal to [you] in the Lord Jesus that, just as you have received from us how it is necessary for you to live and to please God, just as indeed you are living, that you progress even more.

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