Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Please receive the Law from His mouth and lay up 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.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Please receive instruction from his mouth, and place 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 Now be of service with Him, and be at peace. Good shall come to you by them. 22 Please receive the Law from His mouth and lay up His words in your heart. 23 If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up; you shall put away injustice far from your tents.

Cross References

Job 23:12

nor have I gone back from the commandment of His lips; I treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion.

Psalm 119:11

I have hidden Your Word in my heart, so that I might not sin against You.

Deuteronomy 4:1-2

And now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the judgments which I teach you, in order to do them, so that you may live and go in and possess the land which Jehovah, the God of your fathers gives you.

Deuteronomy 6:6-9

And these words which I command you this day shall be in your heart.

Proverbs 2:1-9

My son, if you will receive my words and hide my commandments with you,

Proverbs 4:4

He also taught me, and said to me, Let your heart hold fast my words, keep my commandments and live.

Proverbs 4:21

Let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart.

Jeremiah 15:16

Your Words were found, and I ate them; and Your Word was to me the joy and gladness of my heart; for I am called by Your name, O Jehovah, the God of Hosts.

Matthew 12:35

A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings out good things; and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings out evil things.

Matthew 13:52

Then He said to them, Therefore every scribe who is instructed to the kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out things new and old out of his treasure.

Luke 2:19

But Mary kept all these sayings, meditating in her heart.

Luke 2:51

And He went with them and came to Nazareth, and He was subject to them. But His mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

1 Thessalonians 4:1-2

For the rest, then, my brothers, we beseech you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.

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