Proverbs 6:22
In your going up and down, it leads you, || In your lying down, it watches over you, || And you have awoken—it talks [with] you.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
21Bind them on your heart continually, || Tie them on your neck.
Cross References
Psalms 3:6I am not afraid of myriads of people, || That they have set against me all around.
Psalms 43:3Send forth Your light and Your truth, || They lead me, they bring me in, || To Your holy hill, and to Your dwelling places.
Psalms 119:11I have hid Your saying in my heart, || That I do not sin before You.
Psalms 119:54Your statutes have been songs to me, || In the house of my sojournings.
Psalms 119:148My eyes have gone before the watches, || To meditate on Your saying.
Proverbs 3:23Then you go your way confidently, || And your foot does not stumble.
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 →