Proverbs 6:22
In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
21Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.
Cross References
Psalms 3:6\3:5\I took my rest in sleep, and then again I was awake; for the Lord was my support.
Psalms 43:3O send out your light and your true word; let them be my guide: let them take me to your holy hill, and to your tents.
Psalms 119:11I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.
Psalms 119:54Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.
Psalms 119:148In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.
Proverbs 3:23Then you will go safely on your way, and your feet will have no cause for slipping.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 6:21-35
Parental Cautions; Cautions against Impurity. 20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. 22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. 23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange… Read the whole commentary →