Proverbs 4:23

NET ©

Guard your heart with all vigilance, 1  for from it are the sources 2  of life.

NIV ©

Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.

NASB ©

Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.

NLT ©

Above all else, guard your heart, for it affects everything you do.

MSG ©

Keep vigilant watch over your heart; [that's] where life starts.

BBE ©

And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.

NRSV ©

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

NKJV ©

Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.

KJV
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NET © Notes

1 tn Heb “more than all guarding.” This idiom means “with all vigilance.” The construction uses the preposition מִן (min) to express “above; beyond,” the word “all” and the noun “prison; guard; act of guarding.” The latter is the use here (BDB 1038 s.v. מִשְׁמָר).

2 sn The word תּוֹצְאוֹת (tots’ot, from יָצָא, yatsa’) means “outgoings; extremities; sources.” It is used here for starting points, like a fountainhead, and so the translation “sources” works well.