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.

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

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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
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1 Reference

Context Readings

²⁴ Remove from yourself {deceitful speech}, and abolish {devious talk} from yourself. ²⁵ May your eyes look forward and your gaze be straight before you. ²⁶ May the path of your foot be balanced and all your ways be sure.

Cross References

Proverbs 23:5

Your eyes will {alight} on it, but there is nothing [to] it, for suddenly it will make for itself wings like an eagle and it will be exhausted [in] the heavens.

Proverbs 23:33

Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart will speak perverse things.

Matthew 6:22

"The eye is the lamp of the body. Therefore if your eye is sincere, your whole body will be full of light.

Job 31:1

"I made a covenant with my eyes, so how could I look closely upon a virgin?

Psalm 119:37

Turn away my eyes from looking at [what is] worthless; revive me in your ways.

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