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King James Version (1611 Edition)
Proverbs 4:21
Let them not depart from thine eyes: keepe them in the midst of thine heart.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Don’t lose sight of them;keep them within your heart.
Don’t lose sight of them;keep them within your heart.
Hebrew Names Version
Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.
Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.
King James Version
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
English Standard Version
Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.
Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.
New Century Version
Don't ever forget my words; keep them always in mind.
Don't ever forget my words; keep them always in mind.
New English Translation
Do not let them depart from your sight, guard them within your heart;
Do not let them depart from your sight, guard them within your heart;
Amplified Bible
Do not let them escape from your sight; Keep them in the center of your heart.
Do not let them escape from your sight; Keep them in the center of your heart.
New American Standard Bible
They are not to escape from your sight; Keep them in the midst of your heart.
They are not to escape from your sight; Keep them in the midst of your heart.
World English Bible
Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.
Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Let them not depart from thine eyes, but keepe them in the middes of thine heart.
Let them not depart from thine eyes, but keepe them in the middes of thine heart.
Legacy Standard Bible
Do not let them deviate from your eyes;Keep them in the midst of your heart.
Do not let them deviate from your eyes;Keep them in the midst of your heart.
Berean Standard Bible
Do not lose sight of them; keep them within your heart.
Do not lose sight of them; keep them within your heart.
Contemporary English Version
Don't forget a single word, but think about it all.
Don't forget a single word, but think about it all.
Complete Jewish Bible
Don't let them out of your sight, keep them deep in your heart;
Don't let them out of your sight, keep them deep in your heart;
Darby Translation
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 thy heart.
Easy-to-Read Version
Don't let them out of your sight. Never stop thinking about them.
Don't let them out of your sight. Never stop thinking about them.
George Lamsa Translation
Do not let them depart from your eyes; but keep them in the midst of your heart.
Do not let them depart from your eyes; but keep them in the midst of your heart.
Good News Translation
Never let them get away from you. Remember them and keep them in your heart.
Never let them get away from you. Remember them and keep them in your heart.
Lexham English Bible
May they not escape from your sight; keep them in the midst of your heart.
May they not escape from your sight; keep them in the midst of your heart.
Literal Translation
let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the center of your heart;
let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the center of your heart;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let them not departe from thine eyes, kepe them euen in the myddest of thine herte.
Let them not departe from thine eyes, kepe them euen in the myddest of thine herte.
American Standard Version
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 thy heart.
Bible in Basic English
Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.
Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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 thy heart.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let them not depart from thine eyes, but kepe them euen in the middest of thyne heart:
Let them not depart from thine eyes, but kepe them euen in the middest of thyne heart:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
that thy fountains may not fail thee; keep them in thine heart.
that thy fountains may not fail thee; keep them in thine heart.
English Revised Version
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Go not tho awei fro thyn iyen; kepe thou hem in the myddil of thin herte.
Go not tho awei fro thyn iyen; kepe thou hem in the myddil of thin herte.
Update Bible Version
Don't let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart.
Don't let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart.
Webster's Bible Translation
Let them not depart from thy eyes; keep them in the midst of thy heart.
Let them not depart from thy eyes; keep them in the midst of thy heart.
New King James Version
Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart;
Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart;
New Living Translation
Don't lose sight of them. Let them penetrate deep into your heart,
Don't lose sight of them. Let them penetrate deep into your heart,
New Life Bible
Do not let them leave your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart.
Do not let them leave your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart.
New Revised Standard
Do not let them escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.
Do not let them escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
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 thy heart;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart:
Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart:
Revised Standard Version
Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.
Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.
Young's Literal Translation
Let them not turn aside from thine eyes, Preserve them in the midst of thy heart.
Let them not turn aside from thine eyes, Preserve them in the midst of thy heart.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Do not let them depart from your sight; Keep them in the midst of your heart.
Do not let them depart from your sight; Keep them in the midst of your heart.
Contextual Overview
20 My sonne, attend to my words, incline thine eare vnto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes: keepe them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life vnto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. 23 Keepe thy heart with all diligence: for out of it are the issues of life. 24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and peruerse lips put farre from thee. 25 Let thine eyes looke right on, and let thine eye lids looke straight before thee. 26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy wayes be established. 27 Turne not to the right hande nor to the left: remoue thy foot fro euil.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
depart: Proverbs 3:3, Proverbs 3:21
in the: Proverbs 2:1, Psalms 40:8, *marg.
Reciprocal: Job 22:22 - lay up Proverbs 4:6 - love Proverbs 5:7 - and depart Proverbs 6:21 - General Proverbs 19:8 - he that keepeth
Cross-References
Genesis 4:11
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receiue thy brothers blood from thy hand.
And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receiue thy brothers blood from thy hand.
Genesis 4:12
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yeeld vnto thee her strength: A fugitiue and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yeeld vnto thee her strength: A fugitiue and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Genesis 31:27
Wherefore didst thou flie away secretly, and steale away from me, and didst not tell mee? that I might haue sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harpe,
Wherefore didst thou flie away secretly, and steale away from me, and didst not tell mee? that I might haue sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harpe,
Job 21:12
They take the timbrell and harpe, and reioyce at the sound of the organe.
They take the timbrell and harpe, and reioyce at the sound of the organe.
Isaiah 5:12
And the harpe and the viole, the tabret and pipe, and wine are in their feasts: but they regard not the worke of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
And the harpe and the viole, the tabret and pipe, and wine are in their feasts: but they regard not the worke of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
Amos 6:5
That chaunt to the sound of the Uiole, and inuent to themselues instruments of musicke, like Dauid:
That chaunt to the sound of the Uiole, and inuent to themselues instruments of musicke, like Dauid:
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Let them not depart from thine eyes,.... Commit them to writing, frequently read them over; let them be always in sight, as a rule and directory to steer the course of life by. Some understand this of the wicked, as if the sense was, let not them, the wicked, cause them to depart from thine eyes; nor thee to neglect them, by their bad advice, solicitations to sin, and ill examples; :-;
keep them in the midst of thine heart; lay them up there, and ponder them; often meditate upon them, and do not forget them; show the most affectionate regard unto them, and look upon them as a most inestimable treasure, for which no place is so fit a repository as the heart.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 4:21. Keep them in the midst of thine heart. — Let them be wrapped up in the very centre of thy affections; that they may give spring and energy to every desire, word, and wish.
