Proverbs 4:21

21 Go not they away from thine eyes (Let them not go away from thine eyes); keep thou them in the middle of thine heart.

Proverbs 4:21 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 4:21

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; (See Gill on Proverbs 3:21); 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.

Proverbs 4:21 In-Context

19 The way of wicked men is dark (The way of the wicked is dark); they know not where, (or when,) they shall fall.

20 My son, harken thou (to) my words; and bow down thine ears to my speeches.

21 Go not they away from thine eyes (Let them not go away from thine eyes); keep thou them in the middle of thine heart.

22 For those be life to men finding those, and health of all flesh. (For they be life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.)

23 With all (safe) keeping keep thine heart (safe), for life cometh forth of it (for life cometh forth from it).