Text -- Proverbs 4:21 (NET)

4:21 Do not let them depart from your sight, guard them within your heart;

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 4:21

¹ tn The Hiphil form יַלִּיזוּ (yallizu) follows the Aramaic with gemination. The verb means “to turn aside; to depart” (intransitive Hiphil or inner causative).

² tn Or “keep” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV and many others).

³ sn The words “eyes” and “heart” are metonymies of subject representing the faculties of each. Cf. CEV “think about it all.”