Proverbs 4:3 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

For, a son I have been to my father -- tender, And an only one before my mother.

English ASV

For I was a son unto my father, Tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

English Amplified

When I [Solomon] was a son with my father [David], tender and the only son in the sight of my mother [Bathsheba],

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

When I [Solomon] was a son with my father [David], tender and the only son in the sight of my mother [Bathsheba],

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

When I was a son to my father, tender and the only child of my mother,

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

When I was a son with my father, tender and precious to my mother,

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

For I was a son unto my father, tender and an only one in the sight of my mother.

English EASY 2024

My father taught me when I was a little boy. My mother loved me as her only child. My father said to me, ‘Think carefully about what I tell you. If you obey my commands, you will live well.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

When I was my father's little boy and my mother's dear son,

When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,

English GNT (Good News Translation)

When I was only a little boy, my parents' only son,

English God's Word - GW 1995

When I was a boy {learning} from my father, when I was a tender and only child of my mother,

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

When I was a son with my father, tender and precious to my mother,

English KJV 1611

For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

English LSB

When I was a son to my father, Tender and the only son before my mother,

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

When I was a son to my father, tender and the only beloved in the sight of my mother,

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

When I was a son to my father, Tender and the only son in the sight of my mother,

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

When I was my father's child, frail, yet the darling of my mother,

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

When I was a son to my father, a tender only child before my mother,

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

I was once a young boy in my father's house. I was my mother's only child.

English NIV

When I was a boy in my father's house, still tender, and an only child of my mother,

English NKJ 1982

When I was my father’s son, Tender and the only one in the sight of my mother,

English NLT

For I, too, was once my father's son, tenderly loved by my mother as an only child.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

When I was a son with my father, tender, and my mother's favorite,

English Passion Translation Bible 2020

For I, too, was once the delight of my father and cherished by my mother—their beloved child.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

For I, too, was once a son, tenderly loved by my mother as an only child, and the companion of my father.

English Tyndale 1537

For when I my self was my father's dear son, and tenderly beloved of my mother,

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