Proverbs 4:25
Let your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids precede your steps.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
In Context
24Remove from yourself a corrupt mouth, and let detracting lips be far from you.
26Direct the path of your feet, and all your ways shall be secure.
Cross References
Proverbs 21:29The impious man insolently hardens his face. But whoever is upright corrects his own way.
Proverbs 23:33Your eyes will see women who are outsiders, and your heart will utter perversities.
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 →