Amsal 4:21-22

4:21 Do not let them depart ¹  from your sight,

guard ²  them within your heart; ³ 

4:22 for they are life to those who find them

and healing to one’s entire body. ⁴ 

[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).

[4:21]  ² tn Or “keep” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV and many others).

[4:21]  ³ sn The words “eyes” and “heart” are metonymies of subject representing the faculties of each. Cf. CEV “think about it all.”

[4:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “to all of his flesh.”