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Proverbs 4:21 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 21. 21Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
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Role in This Section
This verse uses two-part parallelism to place “Let them not depart from thine eyes” beside “keep them in the midst of thine heart”.
Read It With
- Proverbs 4:20–27
At Proverbs 4:21, the unit uses two-part parallelism to place “Let them not depart from thine eyes” beside “keep them in the midst of thine heart”. That precise work supports “Guard heart, speech, sight, and feet” without importing a neighboring verse's subject or making the line a complete policy.
Why It Needs Context
This verse uses two-part parallelism to place “Let them not depart from thine eyes” beside “keep them in the midst of thine heart”. Its force depends on the complete instruction, list, comparison, or cluster in Proverbs 4:20–27; the isolated line is connective rather than a complete teaching claim.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Proverbs 4:20–27 — Guard heart, speech, sight, and feetSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
Where care is needed
The verse belongs to a larger speech, instruction, prayer, number saying, or poem; its voice and complete literary movement control how strongly an isolated line may be stated.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, canonical order, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.
Exact location: Proverbs 4:20–27, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Proverbs
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology used only for the exact unit's lexical, grammatical, parallel, superscription, number-saying, and acrostic questions.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Prov.xml, OSIS 4:20-4:27
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