Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.
New American Standard Bible
When you sleep,
And when you awake,
King James Version
When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
Holman Bible
when you lie down, they will watch over you;
when you wake up, they will talk to you.
International Standard Version
During your travels wisdom will lead you; she will watch over you while you rest; and when you are startled from your sleep, she will commune with you.
A Conservative Version
When thou walk, it shall lead thee. When thou sleep, it shall watch over thee. And when thou awake, it shall talk with thee.
American Standard Version
When thou walkest, it shall lead thee; When thou sleepest, it shall watch over thee; And when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
Amplified
When you walk about, they (the godly teachings of your parents) will guide you;
When you sleep, they will keep watch over you;
And when you awake, they will talk to you.
Darby Translation
when thou walkest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
Julia Smith Translation
In thy going about it shall lead thee; in thy lying down it shall watch over thee; and awaking, it shall speak to thee.
King James 2000
When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{When you walk}, she will lead you, {When you lie down}, she will watch over you, and [when] you awake, she will converse [with] you.
Modern King James verseion
When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
That they may lead thee where thou goest, preserve thee when thou art asleep, and that when thou awakest, thou mayest talk of them.
NET Bible
When you walk about, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you.
New Heart English Bible
When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
The Emphasized Bible
When thou walkest abroad, it shall guide thee, when thou sleepest, it shall watch over thee, when thou wakest, it shall speak to thee:
Webster
When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
World English Bible
When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
Youngs Literal Translation
In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked -- it talketh with thee.
Interlinear
Nachah
Shamar
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 6:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
Commandment And Instruction As Guardians
21 Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck. 22 In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you. 23 For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 2:11
Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;
Proverbs 3:23-24
Then you will go safely on your way, and your feet will have no cause for slipping.
Psalm 43:3
O send out your light and your true word; let them be my guide: let them take me to your holy hill, and to your tents.
Psalm 119:9
How may a young man make his way clean? by guiding it after your word.
Psalm 119:11
I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.
Psalm 119:24
Your unchanging word is my delight, and the guide of my footsteps.
Psalm 119:54
Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.
Psalm 119:97
O what love I have for your law! I give thought to it all the day.
Psalm 119:148
In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.
Daniel 11:18-21
After this, his face will be turned to the islands, and he will take a number of them: but a chief, by his destruction, will put an end to the shame offered by him; and more than this, he will make his shame come back on him.