Text -- Proverbs 3:3 (NET)

3:3 Do not let truth and mercy leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 3:3

¹ tn The two words חֶסֶד וֶאֶמֶת (khesed ve’emet, “mercy and truth”) form a nominal hendiadys, the second word becoming an adjective: “faithful covenant love” or “loyal [covenant] love and faithfulness.”

² sn This involves two implied comparisons (hypocatastasis). One is a comparison of living out the duties and responsibilities taught with binding a chain around the neck, and the other is a comparison of the inward appropriation of the teachings with writing them on a tablet. So the teachings are not only to become the lifestyle of the disciple but his very nature.