Proverbs 4:21

Young's Literal Translation

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

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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
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.

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.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Do not let them depart from your sight; Keep them in the midst of your heart.

Contextual Overview

²⁰ My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear, ²¹ Let them not turn aside from thine eyes, Preserve them in the midst of thy heart. ²² For life they [are] to those finding them, And to all their flesh healing. ²³ Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it [are] the outgoings of life. ²⁴ Turn aside from thee a froward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee, ²⁵ Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee. ²⁶ Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways [are] established. ²⁷ Incline not [to] the right or to the left, Turn aside thy foot from evil!

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, cursed [art] thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive the blood of thy brother from thy hand;

Genesis 4:12
when thou tillest the ground, it doth not add to give its strength to thee -- a wanderer, even a trembling one, thou art in the earth.'

Genesis 31:27
Why hast thou hidden thyself to flee, and deceivest me, and hast not declared to me, and I send thee away with joy and with songs, with tabret and with harp,

Job 21:12
They lift [themselves] up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ.

Isaiah 5:12
And harp, and psaltery, tabret, and pipe, And wine, have been their banquets, And the work of Jehovah they behold not, Yea, the work of His hands they have not seen.

Amos 6:5
Who are taking part according to the psaltery, Like David they invented for themselves instruments of music;

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.