Proverbs 4:25
Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
In Context
24Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.
26Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.
Cross References
Psalms 119:37Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.
Proverbs 21:29The evil-doer makes his face hard, but as for the upright, he gives thought to his way.
Proverbs 23:33Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 4:21-27
Parental Instructions. 20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. 24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. 25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and… Read the whole commentary →