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Proverbs 4:25

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Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.
Proverbs 4:25 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
  • BSB Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.
  • ESV Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.
  • NKJV Let your eyes look straight ahead, And your eyelids look right before you.
  • NASB Let your eyes look directly ahead And let your gaze be fixed straight in front of you.
  • NLT Look straight ahead, and fix your eyes on what lies before you.

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 5

  • Ps 119:37Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
  • Matt 6:22“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.
  • Job 31:1“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
  • Prov 23:33Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.
  • Prov 23:5Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

Themes, concepts, people & topics

Topics (5)
DECISIONHONESTYINTEGRITYWATCHFULNESSYOUNG MEN

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Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Proverbs videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

  • VideoWatch teaching on Proverbs 4:25YouTube · Lay · Free

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Clear, readable, conservative exposition — the best free place to start on any passage.

  • CommentaryClassic commentaries for this verseBibleHub (20+ works) · Pastoral · Free

    Matthew Henry, Barnes, Gill, the Pulpit Commentary, Ellicott, Cambridge, and more — stacked on one page for this exact verse.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on ProverbsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

Wisdom personified, with God before creation and the agent of all things, anticipates Christ 'in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom' — the wisdom of God made flesh.

How Proverbs 4:25 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Original language

Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Hebrew word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.

Let thine eyesעַיִןlookנָבַטright onנֹכַחand let thine eyelidsעַפְעַףlook straightיָשַׁר
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