Proverbs 4:25

Amplified Bible

Let your eyes look directly ahead [toward the path of moral courage] And let your gaze be fixed straight in front of you [toward the path of integrity].

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Let your eyes look forward;fix your gaze straight ahead.

Hebrew Names Version
Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

King James Version
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

English Standard Version
Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.

New Century Version
Keep your eyes focused on what is right, and look straight ahead to what is good.

New English Translation
Let your eyes look directly in front of you and let your gaze look straight before you.

New American Standard Bible
Let your eyes look directly ahead And let your gaze be fixed straight in front of you.

World English Bible
Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Let thine eyes beholde the right, and let thine eyeliddes direct thy way before thee.

Legacy Standard Bible
Let your eyes look directly aheadAnd even let your eyelids be fixed straight in front of you.

Berean Standard Bible
Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.

Contemporary English Version
Keep looking straight ahead, without turning aside.

Complete Jewish Bible
Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze on what lies in front of you.

Darby Translation
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

Easy-to-Read Version
Keep your eyes on the path, and look straight ahead.

George Lamsa Translation
Let your eyes look straight forward, and let your eyelids look straight before you.

Good News Translation
Look straight ahead with honest confidence; don't hang your head in shame.

Lexham English Bible
May your eyes look forward and your gaze be straight before you.

Literal Translation
Let your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids look straight before you.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let thine eyes beholde the thinge yt is right, & let thine eye lyddes loke straight before the.

American Standard Version
Let thine eyes look right on, And let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

Bible in Basic English
Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

King James Version (1611)
Let thine eyes looke right on, and let thine eye lids looke straight before thee.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let thyne eyes beholde that thyng that is right, and let thyne eye liddes loke straight before thee.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids assent to just things.

English Revised Version
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thin iyen se riytful thingis; and thin iyeliddis go bifore thi steppis.

Update Bible Version
Let your eyes look right on, And let your eyelids look straight before you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Let thy eyes look right on, and let thy eyelids look straight before thee.

New King James Version
Let your eyes look straight ahead, And your eyelids look right before you.

New Living Translation
Look straight ahead, and fix your eyes on what lies before you.

New Life Bible
Let your eyes look straight in front of you, and keep looking at what is in front of you.

New Revised Standard
Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let, thine eyes, right onward, look, - and, thine eyelashes, point straight before thee.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thy eyelids go before thy steps.

Revised Standard Version
Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.

Young's Literal Translation
Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Let your eyes look directly ahead And let your gaze be fixed straight in front of you.

Contextual Overview

²⁰My son, pay attention to my words and be willing to learn; Open your ears to my sayings. ²¹Do not let them escape from your sight; Keep them in the center of your heart. ²²For they are life to those who find them, And healing and health to all their flesh. ²³Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life. ²⁴Put away from you a deceitful (lying, misleading) mouth, And put devious lips far from you. ²⁵Let your eyes look directly ahead [toward the path of moral courage] And let your gaze be fixed straight in front of you [toward the path of integrity].²⁶Consider well and watch carefully the path of your feet, And all your ways will be steadfast and sure. ²⁷Do not turn away to the right nor to the left [where evil may lurk]; Turn your foot from [the path of] evil.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 23:5, Proverbs 23:33, Job 31:1, Psalms 119:37, Matthew 6:22

Reciprocal: Psalms 5:8 - make Psalms 37:34 - keep Proverbs 8:20 - in the Proverbs 23:26 - let Ecclesiastes 7:18 - good Ezekiel 1:9 - they turned Luke 10:4 - and

Cross-References

Genesis 4:1
Now the man Adam knew Eve as his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, "I have obtained a man (baby boy, son) with the help of the LORD."

Genesis 4:3
And in the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground.

Genesis 4:4
But Abel brought [an offering of] the [finest] firstborn of his flock and the fat portions. And the LORD had respect (regard) for Abel and for his offering;

Genesis 4:8
Cain talked with Abel his brother [about what God had said]. And when they were [alone, working] in the field, Cain attacked Abel his brother and killed him.

Genesis 4:10
The LORD said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's [innocent] blood is crying out to Me from the ground [for justice].

Genesis 4:11
"And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's [shed] blood from your hand.

1 Chronicles 1:1
Adam [his genealogical line], Seth, Enosh,

Luke 3:38
the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let thine eyes look right on,.... To the path of truth and holiness, without turning or looking to the right hand or left, as it is afterwards expressed; to the word of truth, as the rule to walk by; to Christ, the author and finisher of faith, from whom all grace, and the supplies of it, are to be had; and to the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God;

and thine eyelids look straight before thee; to the precepts of the word, to observe them; to the promises of it for encouragement; to the examples of the saints gone before, as motives to excite diligence, and to exercise patience, faith, and hope; to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life, and to the blessed hope laid up in heaven.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Speech turned from its true purpose, the wandering eye that leads on to evil, action hasty and inconsiderate, are the natural results where we do not “above all keeping keep our heart” Proverbs 4:23.