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.

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.

Themes

Heedfulness » Commanded

Vision » Of Christ, full of compassion » The danger of the misuse of

Topics

Controlling Your Thoughts

Interlinear

English(KJV)

Strong's

Root Form

Definition

Usage

Let thine eyes

H5869

עין
`ayin

eye, sight, seem, colour, fountain, well, face, pleased , presence, displeased , before, pleased , conceit, think,

Usage: 372

look

H5027

נבט
Nabat

look, behold, consider, regard, see, respect, look down, look about, look back

Usage: 69

right on

H5227

נכח
Nokach

against, before, directly, for, on, over

Usage: 24

and let thine eyelids

H6079

עפעף
`aph`aph

eyelid, dawning

Usage: 10

look straight

H3474

ישׁר
Yashar

please, straight, direct, right, well, fitted, good, make straight, meet, upright, uprightly

Usage: 26

References

Fausets

Fringes

Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 4:25

Verse Info

Bible Rank: 17363
Proverbs Rank: 504
7 Topics
2 Themes
5 Cross References
1 Reading
Interlinear
1 Reference

Context Readings

²⁴ Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and perverse lips put far from you. ²⁵ Let your eyes look directly forward, and let your eyelids look straight before you. ²⁶ Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.

Cross References

Proverbs 23:5

Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Proverbs 23:33

Your eyes shall behold strange things, and your heart shall utter perverse things.

Matthew 6:22

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be sound, your whole body shall be full of light.

Job 31:1

I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think upon a maiden?

Psalm 119:37

Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity; and revive me in your way.