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21 Do not let them depart[a] from your sight,
guard[b] them within your heart;[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 4:21 tn The Hiphil form יַלִּיזוּ (yallizu) follows the Aramaic with gemination. The verb means “to turn aside; to depart” (intransitive Hiphil or inner causative).
  2. Proverbs 4:21 tn Or “keep” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV and many others).
  3. Proverbs 4:21 sn The words “eyes” and “heart” are metonymies of subject representing the faculties of each. Cf. CEV “think about it all.”