Proverbs 4:21 {22}
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For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.

depart

Proverbs 3:3,21 And thou shalt find grace, and good understanding before God and men. . . .

in the

Proverbs 2:1 That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: incline thy heart to know prudence.

Psalm 40:8 That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.

Context
A Father's Instruction
20Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart: 21For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.22With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.…
Cross References
Proverbs 3:21
And there shall be life to thy soul, and grace to thy mouth.

Proverbs 7:1
Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye:

Proverbs 7:2
Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.

Lexicon
Do not
אַל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 408: Not

lose
יַלִּ֥יזוּ (yal·lî·zū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3868: To turn aside, to depart, be perverse

sight of them;
מֵעֵינֶ֑יךָ (mê·‘ê·ne·ḵā)
Preposition-m | Noun - cdc | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5869: An eye, a fountain

keep
שָׁ֝מְרֵ֗ם (mə·rêm)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to

them within
בְּת֣וֹךְ (bə·ṯō·wḵ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8432: A bisection, the centre

your heart.
לְבָבֶֽךָ׃ (lə·ḇā·ḇe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3824: Inner man, mind, will, heart


Additional Translations
Do not lose sight of them; keep them within your heart.Let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the middle of your heart.

Let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep them in the midst of thy heart.

that thy fountains may not fail thee; keep them in thine heart.

Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thy heart.

Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

Let them not depart from thy eyes; keep them in the midst of thy heart.

Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.

Let them not turn aside from thine eyes, Preserve them in the midst of thy heart.
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