King James Version
Proverbs 6:22 in the King James Version says “When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with t...” — study this verse from Proverbs chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.”
Proverbs 6:22 · KJV
My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: lamp: or, candle
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. of the: or, of the strange tongue
KJV Study — Public Domain
“When thou goest”
H1980to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
“it shall lead”
H5148to guide; by implication, to transport (into exile, or as colonists)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“thee when thou sleepest”
H7901to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
“it shall keep”
H8104properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e., guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“it shall talk”
H7878to ponder, i.e., (by implication) converse (with oneself, and hence, aloud) or (transitively) utter
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