# keep watch over your souls

The believers' souls, that is, the believers' spiritual well-being, are spoken of as if they were objects or animals that guards could keep watch over. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])

# not with groaning

Here "groaning" stands for sadness or grief. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])