Amsal 4:22-23

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

and healing to one’s entire body. ¹ 

4:23 Guard your heart with all vigilance, ² 

for from it are the sources ³  of life.

[4:22]  ¹ tn Heb “to all of his flesh.”

[4:23]  ² tn Heb “more than all guarding.” This idiom means “with all vigilance.” The construction uses the preposition מִן (min) to express “above; beyond,” the word “all” and the noun “prison; guard; act of guarding.” The latter is the use here (BDB 1038 s.v. מִשְׁמָר).

[4:23]  ³ sn The word תּוֹצְאוֹת (tots’ot, from יָצָא, yatsa’) means “outgoings; extremities; sources.” It is used here for starting points, like a fountainhead, and so the translation “sources” works well.