Proverbs 4:23–24
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4:23Guard your heart with all vigilance,48
for from it are the sources49 of life.
4:24Remove perverse speech50 from your mouth;51
keep devious talk far from your lips.52
Footnotes
- 48 Heb “more than all guarding.” This idiom means “with all vigilance.” The construction uses the preposition מִן (min) to express “above; beyond,” the word “all” and the noun “prison; guard; act of guarding.” The latter is the use here ( 1038 מִשְׁמָר).
- 49 The word תּוֹצְאוֹת (tots’ot, from יָצָא, yatsa’) means “outgoings; extremities; sources.” It is used here for starting points, like a fountainhead, and so the translation “sources” works well.
- 50 Heb “crookedness.” The noun עִקְּשׁוּת (’iqqéshut) refers to what is morally twisted or perverted. Here it refers to things that are said (cf. “dishonest talk”; “crooked speech”). The term “mouth” functions as a metonymy of cause for perverse speech. Such perverse talking could be subtle or blatant.
- 51 Heb “crookedness of mouth.”
- 52 Heb “deviousness of lips put far from you.”
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
Keep your heart with all vigilance,
for from it flow the springs of life.
Put away from you crooked speech,
and put devious talk far from you.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
Above all else, guard your heart,
for everything you do flows from it.
Keep your mouth free of perversity;
keep corrupt talk far from your lips.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
Guard your heart above all else,
for it is the source of life.
Don’t let your mouth speak dishonestly,
and don’t let your lips talk deviously.
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NLTNew Living Translation
Guard your heart above all else,
for it determines the course of your life.
Avoid all perverse talk;
stay away from corrupt speech.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
With all vigilance, keep your heart,
for from it comes the source of life.
Remove from yourself deceitful speech,
and abolish devious talk from yourself.
Copyright 2012 Lexham Press
KJV 1900King James Version
Keep thy heart with all diligence;
For out of it are the issues of life.
Put away from thee a froward mouth,
And perverse lips put far from thee.
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