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New American Standard Bible (1995)
Proverbs 4:25
Let your eyes look directly ahead And let your gaze be fixed straight in front of you.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Let your eyes look forward;fix your gaze straight ahead.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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].
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.
Contemporary English Version
Keep looking straight ahead, without turning aside.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Contextual Overview
20 My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. 21 Do not let them depart from your sight; Keep them in the midst of your heart. 22 For they are life to those who find them And health to all their body. 23 Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life. 24 Put away from you a deceitful mouth And put devious speech far from you. 25 Let your eyes look directly ahead And let your gaze be fixed straight in front of you.26 Watch the path of your feet And all your ways will be established. 27 Do not turn to the right nor to the left; Turn your foot from 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 had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, "I have gotten a manchild with the help of the LORD."
Now the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, "I have gotten a manchild with the help of the LORD."
Genesis 4:3
So it came about in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the LORD of the fruit of the ground.
So it came about in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the LORD of the fruit of the ground.
Genesis 4:4
Abel, on his part also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and for his offering;
Abel, on his part also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and for his offering;
Genesis 4:8
Cain told Abel his brother. And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.
Cain told Abel his brother. And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.
Genesis 4:10
He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground.
He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground.
Genesis 4:11
"Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
"Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
1 Chronicles 1:1
Adam, Seth, Enosh,
Adam, Seth, Enosh,
Luke 3:38
the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
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.
