4:21 Do not let them depart 1 from your sight,
guard 2 them within your heart; 3
4:22 for they are life to those who find them
and healing to one’s entire body. 4
1 tn The Hiphil form יַלִּיזוּ (yallizu) follows the Aramaic with gemination. The verb means “to turn aside; to depart” (intransitive Hiphil or inner causative).
2 tn Or “keep” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV and many others).
3 sn The words “eyes” and “heart” are metonymies of subject representing the faculties of each. Cf. CEV “think about it all.”
4 tn Heb “to all of his flesh.”