“Let not mercy and trueth forsake thee: bind them about thy necke, write them vpon the table of thine heart.”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
- King James Version
Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart:
- American Standard Version (1901)
Let not mercy and good faith go from you; let them be hanging round your neck, recorded on your heart;
- Basic English Bible
Let not loving-kindness and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart:
- Darby Bible
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thy heart:
- Webster's Bible
Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
- World English Bible
Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart,
- Youngs Literal Bible
Let not kindness and truth forsake thee; bind them about thy neck, write them upon the table of thy heart;
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Proverbs 3:3
3:3 Mercy - Mercy denotes all benignity, charity, and readiness to do good to others: truth or faithfulness respects all those duties which we owe to God or man, which we have special obligation from the rules of justice. Bind them - Like a chain, wherewith persons adorn their necks. Table - In thy mind and heart, in which all God's commands are to be received and engraven.