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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.”

21 Do not let them out of your sight,(A)
    keep them within your heart;

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