Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version My son, do not let wisdom and understanding out of your sight, preserve sound judgment and discretion; New Living Translation My child, don’t lose sight of common sense and discernment. Hang on to them, English Standard Version My son, do not lose sight of these— keep sound wisdom and discretion, Berean Standard Bible My son, do not lose sight of this: Preserve sound judgment and discernment. King James Bible My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: New King James Version My son, let them not depart from your eyes— Keep sound wisdom and discretion; New American Standard Bible My son, see that they do not escape from your sight; Comply with sound wisdom and discretion, NASB 1995 My son, let them not vanish from your sight; Keep sound wisdom and discretion, NASB 1977 My son, let them not depart from your sight; Keep sound wisdom and discretion, Legacy Standard Bible My son, let them not deviate from your eyes; Guard sound wisdom and discretion, Amplified Bible My son, let them not escape from your sight, But keep sound wisdom and discretion, Christian Standard Bible Maintain sound wisdom and discretion. My son, don’t lose sight of them. Holman Christian Standard Bible Maintain your competence and discretion. My son, don’t lose sight of them. American Standard Version My son, let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep sound wisdom and discretion: Aramaic Bible in Plain English My son, let not your eyes depart from keeping my teaching and my counsels. Brenton Septuagint Translation My son, let them not pass from thee, but keep my counsel and understanding: Contemporary English Version My child, use common sense and sound judgment! Always keep them in mind. Douay-Rheims Bible My son, let not these things depart from thy eyes: keep the law and counsel: English Revised Version My son, let not them depart from thine eyes; keep sound wisdom and discretion; GOD'S WORD® Translation My son, do not lose sight of these things. Use priceless wisdom and foresight. Good News Translation My child, hold on to your wisdom and insight. Never let them get away from you. International Standard Version My son, do not let wisdom leave your sight. Carefully observe sound judgment and discernment, JPS Tanakh 1917 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes; Keep sound wisdom and discretion; Literal Standard Version My son! Do not let them turn from your eyes, | Keep wisdom and thoughtfulness, Majority Standard Bible My son, do not lose sight of this: Preserve sound judgment and discernment. New American Bible My son, do not let these slip from your sight: hold to deliberation and planning; NET Bible My child, do not let them escape from your sight; safeguard sound wisdom and discretion. New Revised Standard Version My child, do not let these escape from your sight: keep sound wisdom and prudence, New Heart English Bible My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion: Webster's Bible Translation My son, let not them depart from thy eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: World English Bible My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion, Young's Literal Translation My son! let them not turn from thine eyes, Keep thou wisdom and thoughtfulness, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Blessings of Wisdom…20By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew. 21My son, do not lose sight of this: Preserve sound judgment and discernment. 22They will be life to your soul and adornment to your neck.… Cross References Hebrews 2:1 We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. Proverbs 1:4 To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young, Proverbs 4:21 Do not lose sight of them; keep them within your heart. Proverbs 5:2 that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge. Proverbs 8:14 Counsel and sound judgment are mine; I have insight and strength. Proverbs 18:1 He who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment. Treasury of Scripture My son, let not them depart from your eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: let Proverbs 3:1-3 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: … Deuteronomy 4:9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons; Deuteronomy 6:6-9 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: … keep Proverbs 2:7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. Deuteronomy 32:46,47 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law… Jump to Previous Depart Discernment Discretion Escape Eyes Good Judgment Preserve Purpose Sense Sight Sound Thoughtfulness Turn Vanish Wisdom WiseJump to Next Depart Discernment Discretion Escape Eyes Good Judgment Preserve Purpose Sense Sight Sound Thoughtfulness Turn Vanish Wisdom WiseProverbs 3 1. various exhortations13. The gain of wisdom 27. Exhortation to goodness 33. the different state of the wicked and upright Verse 21. - My son, let not them depart from thine eyes. After the description of the power of Wisdom exhibited in creating and sustaining the earth, the exhortation to keep Wisdom steadily before the eyes, and the promises of Divine protection, appropriately follow. Since Wisdom is so powerful, then, the teacher argues, she is worthy of being retained and guarded, and able to protect. Let them not depart (al-yaluzu); i.e. "let them not escape or slip aside from your mind (cf. Vulgate, ne effluant haec ab oculis ruts). They are to be as frontiers between your eyes, as a ring upon your finger. Yaluzu, from luz, "to bend aside," defiectere, a via declinare, which see in Proverbs 2:15, ought probably to be written yellezu, on the analogy of the corresponding passage in Proverbs 4:21. The LXX. renders absolutely μὴ παραῥῤύης, "do not thou pass by," from παραῥῤύω, "to flow by," "to pass by, recede" (cf. Hebrews 2:1, "Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to these things, lest at any time we should let them slip (μὴ ποτε παραῥῤυῶμεν)," quoted probably from the LXX. of this passage). The Targum Jonathan reads ne vilescat, "let it," i.e. wisdom, "not become worthless." Them, included in the verb yaluzu of which it is subject in the original, is to be referred either to "sound wisdom and discretion" of ver. 21b - so Gejerus, Cartwright, Geier, Umbreit, Hitzig, Zockter, Plumptre (a similar trajection occurs in Deuteronomy 32:5, and is used, as here, to give vividness to the description): or to "wisdom, understanding, knowledge," of the preceding verses - so Delitzsch and Holden. The first view in every way seems preferable, and it is no objection to it that "sound wisdom" (tushiyyah) and "discretion" (m'yimmah) are feminine, while the verb "depart" (yaluzu) is masculine (see Gesenius, *Gram.,' § 147). The Syriac reads, "Let it not become worthless (ne vile fit) in thine eyes to keep my doctrine and my counsels." Keep sound wisdom and discretion. Keep; n'zor, kal imperative of natsar, "to watch, guard." For "sound wisdom" (tushiyyah), see Proverbs 2:7. Here used for "wisdom" (kokhmah), as "discretion" (m'zimmah) for "understanding" (t'vunah), to contrast the absolute wisdom and insight of God with the corresponding attributes in man (see Zockler, in loc.). They belong to God, but are conferred on those who seek after Wisdom, and are then to be guarded as priceless treasures. The Vulgate reads, custodi legem et consilium; and the LXX., τήρησον δὲ ἐμὴν βουλὴν καὶ ἔννοιαν, "guard my counsel and thought." Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew My son,בְּ֭נִי (bə·nî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 1121: A son do not אַל־ (’al-) Adverb Strong's 408: Not lose יָלֻ֣זוּ (yā·lu·zū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 3868: To turn aside, to depart, be perverse sight of this: מֵעֵינֶ֑יךָ (mê·‘ê·ne·ḵā) Preposition-m | Noun - cdc | second person masculine singular Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain Preserve נְצֹ֥ר (nə·ṣōr) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 5341: To watch, guard, keep sound judgment תֻּ֝שִׁיָּ֗ה (tu·šî·yāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8454: Support, ability, help, an undertaking, understanding and discernment. וּמְזִמָּֽה׃ (ū·mə·zim·māh) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 4209: A plan, evil, sometimes good Links Proverbs 3:21 NIVProverbs 3:21 NLT Proverbs 3:21 ESV Proverbs 3:21 NASB Proverbs 3:21 KJV Proverbs 3:21 BibleApps.com Proverbs 3:21 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 3:21 Chinese Bible Proverbs 3:21 French Bible Proverbs 3:21 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 3:21 My son let them not depart (Prov. 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