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Wycliffe Bible

Proverbs 4:21

Go not tho awei fro thyn iyen; kepe thou hem in the myddil of thin herte.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Wisdom;   Young Men;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Flesh;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Earrings;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Old Testament (Ii. Christ as Student and Interpreter of).;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for February 4;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
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.
King James Version
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.
New Century Version
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;
Amplified Bible
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.
World English Bible
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.
Legacy Standard Bible
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.
Contemporary English Version
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;
Darby Translation
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.
George Lamsa Translation
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.
Lexham English Bible
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;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
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.
Bible in Basic English
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.
King James Version (1611)
Let them not depart from thine eyes: keepe them in the midst of thine heart.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
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.
English Revised Version
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
Update Bible Version
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.
New King James Version
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,
New Life Bible
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.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
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:
Revised Standard Version
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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Do not let them depart from your sight; Keep them in the midst of your heart.

Contextual Overview

20 Mi sone, herkene thou my wordis; and bowe doun thin eeris to my spechis. 21 Go not tho awei fro thyn iyen; kepe thou hem in the myddil of thin herte. 22 For tho ben lijf to men fyndynge thoo, and heelthe `of al fleisch. 23 With al keping kepe thin herte, for lijf cometh forth of it. 24 Remoue thou a schrewid mouth fro thee; and backbitynge lippis be fer fro thee. 25 Thin iyen se riytful thingis; and thin iyeliddis go bifore thi steppis. 26 Dresse thou pathis to thi feet, and alle thi weies schulen be stablischid. 27 Bowe thou not to the riytside, nether to the leftside; turne awei thi foot fro yuel. For the Lord knowith the weies that ben at the riytside; but the weies ben weiward, that ben at the leftside. Forsothe he schal make thi goyngis riytful; and thi weies schulen be brouyt forth in pees.

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
Now therfor thou schalt be cursid on erthe, that openyde his mouth, and resseyuede of thin hond the blood of thi brothir.
Genesis 4:12
Whanne thou schalt worche the erthe, it schal not yyue his fruytis to thee; thou schalt be vnstable of dwellyng and fleynge aboute on erthe in alle the daies of thi lijf.
Genesis 31:27
Whi woldist thou fle the while Y wiste not, nether woldist shewe to me, that Y shulde sue thee with ioie, and songis, and tympans, and harpis?
Job 21:12
Thei holden tympan, and harpe; and ioien at the soun of orgun.
Isaiah 5:12
Harpe, and giterne, and tympan, and pipe, and wyn ben in youre feestis; and ye biholden not the werk of the Lord, nether ye biholden the werkis of hise hondis.
Amos 6:5
and ye syngen at vois of sautree. As Dauid thei gessiden hem for to haue instrumentis of song, and drynken wyn in viols;

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.


 
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