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A Father’s Instruction

Proverbs 4:21

In 11 translations

BSB
Do not lose sight of them; keep them within your heart.
KJV
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
WEB
Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart.
ASV
Let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep them in the midst of thy heart.
LSV
Do not let them turn aside from your eyes, || Preserve them in the midst of your heart.
YLT
Let them not turn aside from thine eyes, Preserve them in the midst of thy heart.
DBY
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thy heart.
DRC
Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart:
GNV
Let them not depart from thine eyes, but keepe them in the middes of thine heart.
JPS
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thy heart.
LXXE
that thy fountains may not fail thee; keep them in thine heart.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
אַל־יַלִּ֥יזוּ מֵעֵינֶ֑יךָ שָׁ֝מְרֵ֗ם בְּת֣וֹךְ לְבָבֶֽךָ׃
LXX-Br
Ὅπως μὴ ἐκλίπωσί σε αἱ πηγαί σου, φύλασσε αὐτὰς ἐν καρδίᾳ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Proverbs 3:21My son, do not lose sight of this: Preserve sound judgment and discernment.
  • Proverbs 3:3Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
  • Proverbs 7:1–2My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you. Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
  • Psalms 40:8I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
  • Proverbs 2:1My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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