Proverbs 4:23
Set watch over and guard thy lev with all diligence; 1 for out of it are the totze'ot chayyim (issues, wellsprings of life). + 4:23 cf Mk 7:20-23 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
In Context
22For they are chayyim unto those that find them, 1 and health to all their basar. 1
24Put away from thee a deceitful peh (mouth), 1 and perverse sfatayim (lips) put far from thee. 1
Cross References
Psalms 139:23Search me, O El, and know my levav; 1 test me, and know my thoughts; 1
Proverbs 4:7Chochmah is the principal thing; 1 therefore get chochmah, and with all thy getting get binah (understanding). 1
Proverbs 13:3He that is shomer over his peh (mouth) guards his nefesh, 1 but he that openeth wide his sfatayim (lips) shall have ruin. 1
Proverbs 22:5Thorns and pachim (snares) are in the derech of the crooked; 1 he that is shomer over his nefesh shall be far from them. 1
Proverbs 28:26He that trusteth in his own lev is a kesil (fool), 1 but he who walketh in chochmah, he shall be delivered. 1
Jeremiah 17:9The lev (heart, mind) akov (is deceitful) above all things, 1 and anush (incurable); + 17:9 in wickedness who can know it? 1
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 4:21-27
Parental Instructions. 20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. 24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. 25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and… Read the whole commentary →