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).