Parallel Verses
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].
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.
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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let thine eyes behold the thing that is right, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
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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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 4:25
Verse Info
Context Readings
Staying The Course
24
Put away from you a deceitful (lying, misleading) mouth,
And put devious lips far from you.
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].
Consider well and watch carefully the path of your feet,
And all your ways will be steadfast and sure.
Cross References
Proverbs 23:5
When you set your eyes on wealth, it is [suddenly] gone.
For wealth certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies to the heavens.
Proverbs 23:33
Your [drunken] eyes will see strange things
And your mind will utter perverse things [untrue things, twisted things].
Matthew 6:22
Job 31:1
How then could I gaze [lustfully] at a virgin?
Psalm 119:37
Turn my eyes away from vanity [all those worldly, meaningless things that distract—let Your priorities be mine],
And restore me [with renewed energy] in Your ways.