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

biblegateway Pro 4:23

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

Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source of life.

Guard your heart more than anything else, because the source of your life flows from it.

biblegateway Pro 4:23

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

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

bibleoremus Pro 4:23

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

Guard your heart more than anything you treasure, for it is the source of all life.

biblegateway Pro 4:23

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

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of life.

biblegateway Pro 4:23

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

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.