The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

Now therefore hearken to me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

To call passengers who go right on their ways:

He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.

The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth to counsel is wise.

The righteous is more excellent than his neighbor: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

In the way of righteousness is life; and in the path of it there is no death.

Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

Good understanding giveth favor: but the way of transgressors is hard.

He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

There is a way which seemeth right to a man, but the end of it are the ways of death.

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD; but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.

Correction is grievous to him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.

The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.

The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.

When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

There is a way that seemeth right to a man, but the end of it is the ways of death.

A violent man enticeth his neighbor, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it is found in the way of righteousness.

A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.

He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.

Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.

The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.

Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart in the way.

My son, give me thy heart, and let thy eyes observe my ways.

The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he is rich.

Whoever causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.

He who walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.

The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

Give not thy strength to women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

Also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.

As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor the structure of the parts of conception in her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thy eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they who lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,

Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her distress, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee to Zoar, a heifer of three years old: for they shall go up the ascent of Luhith with weeping; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise a cry of destruction.

The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.

Yes, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are overwhelmed with wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

Withdraw from the way, turn aside from the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

And thy ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

The highways lie waste, the way-faring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called, The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the way-faring men, though fools, shall not err therein.

Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.

The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?

Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over by my God?

He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.

And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do for them, and not forsake them.

Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient to his law.

Thus saith the LORD, who maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.

I, even I, have spoken, yes, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God, who teacheth thee to profit, who leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldst go.

That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.

Art thou not that which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Yes, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.

Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thy hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.

And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.

For the iniquity of his covetousness I was wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

If thou shalt turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thy own ways, nor finding thy own pleasure, nor speaking thy own words:

The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.

O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thy inheritance.

Thou meetest him that rejoiceth, and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.