Proverbs 6:22

When thou goest, it shall guide thee; 1 when thou sleepest, it shall be shomer over thee; 1 and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

In Context

21Bind them tamid (continually) upon thine lev, 1 and tie them about thy neck. 1

23For the mitzvah is a ner (lamp); and torah an ohr; 1 and tokhakhot musar (reproofs of discipline) are the Derech Chayyim (Life Lane); 1

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Cross References

Psalms 3:6I laid me down and slept; 1 I awaked, for Hashem sustains me. 1

Psalms 43:3O send out Thy Ohr and Thy Emes; 1 let them guide me; 1 let them bring me unto Thy Har Kodesh, 1 and to Thy Mishkan. 1

Psalms 119:11Thy word have I hid in my lev, 1 lema'an (so that) I might not sin against Thee. 1

Psalms 119:54Thy chukkim have been my zemirot (songs) 1 in the bais of my pilgrimage. 1

Psalms 119:148Mine eyes are awake through the ashmurot (night watches), 1 that I might meditate on Thy word. 1

Proverbs 3:23Then shalt thou walk in thy derech safely, 1 and thy regel shall not stumble. 1

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 →

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