Proverbs 4:25

Brenton's Septuagint

Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids assent to just things.

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.

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].

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.

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

²⁰ My son, attend to my speech; and apply thine ear to my words: ²¹ that thy fountains may not fail thee; keep them in thine heart. ²² For they are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh. ²³ Keep thine heart with the utmost care; for out of these are the issues of life. ²⁴ Remove from thee a froward mouth, and put far away from thee unjust lips. ²⁵ Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids assent to just things. ²⁶ Make straight paths for thy feet, and order thy ways aright. ²⁷ Turn not aside to the right hand nor to the left, but turn away thy foot from an evil way: [for God knows the ways on the right hand, but those on the left are crooked:] and he will make thy ways straight, and will guide thy steps in peace.

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
And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and brought forth Cain and said, I have gained a man through God.

Genesis 4:3
And it was so after some time that Cain brought of the fruits of the earth a sacrifice to the Lord.

Genesis 4:4
And Abel also brought of the first born of his sheep and of his fatlings, and God looked upon Abel and his gifts,

Genesis 4:8
And Cain said to Abel his brother, Let us go out into the plain; and it came to pass that when they were in the plain Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

Genesis 4:10
And the Lord said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood cries to me out of the ground.

Genesis 4:11
And now thou art cursed from the earth which has opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand.

1 Chronicles 1:1
Adam, Seth, Enos,

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.