Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let thine eyes behold the thing that is right, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
New American Standard Bible
And let your
King James Version
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Holman Bible
fix your gaze
International Standard Version
Let your eyes look directly ahead; fix your gaze straight in front of you.
A Conservative Version
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
American Standard Version
Let thine eyes look right on, And let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Amplified
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].
Bible in Basic English
Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.
Darby Translation
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Julia Smith Translation
Thine eyes shall look straight before, and thine eyelashes shall be right before thee.
King James 2000
Let your eyes look directly forward, and let your eyelids look straight before you.
Lexham Expanded Bible
May your eyes look forward and your gaze be straight before you.
Modern King James verseion
Let your eyes look right on, and let your eyelids look straight before you.
NET Bible
Let your eyes look directly in front of you and let your gaze look straight before you.
New Heart English Bible
Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.
The Emphasized Bible
Let, thine eyes, right onward, look, - and, thine eyelashes, point straight before thee.
Webster
Let thy eyes look right on, and let thy eyelids look straight before thee.
World English Bible
Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.
Youngs Literal Translation
Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee.
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 4:25
Verse Info
Context Readings
Staying The Course
24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and let the lips of slander be far from thee. 25 Let thine eyes behold the thing that is right, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 26 Ponder the path of thy feet: so shall all thy ways be sure.
Cross References
Proverbs 23:5
Why wilt thou set thine eye upon the thing, which suddenly vanisheth away? For riches make themselves wings, and take their flight like an Eagle into the air.
Proverbs 23:33
So shall thine eyes look unto strange women, and thine heart shall muse upon froward things.
Matthew 6:22
The light of the body is thine eye: wherefore if thine eye be single, all thy body shall be full of light.
Job 31:1
I made a covenant with mine eyes, that I would not look upon a damsel.
Psalm 119:37
O turn away mine eyes, lest they behold vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.