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Proverbs 4:21

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4:21Do not let them depart44 from your sight,

guard45 them within your heart;46

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Footnotes

  1. 44 The Hiphil form יַלִּיזוּ (yallizu) follows the Aramaic with gemination. The verb means “to turn aside; to depart” (intransitive Hiphil or inner causative).
  2. 45 Or “keep” (so , , and many others).
  3. 46 The words “eyes” and “heart” are metonymies of subject representing the faculties of each. Cf. “think about it all.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Let them not escape from your sight;

keep them within your heart.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Do not let them out of your sight,

keep them within your heart;

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Don’t lose sight of them;

keep them within your heart.

NLTNew Living Translation

Don’t lose sight of them.

Let them penetrate deep into your heart,

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

May they not escape from your sight;

keep them in the midst of your heart.

KJV 1900King James Version

Let them not depart from thine eyes;

Keep them in the midst of thine heart.