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Proverbs 4:25

PROVERBS—NOTE ON Proverbs 4:25 The idea that the eyes should look directly forward suggests determination to remain in the right way. When a person turns his eyes away from the path, he is likely to stumble.

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See also Proverbs 4:25 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Speech turned from its true purpose, the wandering eye that leads on to evil, action hasty and inconsiderate, are the natural results where we do not “above all keeping keep our heart” Proverbs 4:23....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Solomon's training (Proverbs 4:1)_ 2. Hear, O my son: Receive my sayings (Proverbs 4:10) 3. My son, attend to my words. (Proverbs 4:20)...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    LET THINE EYES LOOK RIGHT ON— This advice principally regards the conduct of manners. "Apply yourself to yourself, to your own proper conduct, to the direction of your own ways: carry not your _eyes,_...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT Proverbs 4:20-27 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 thy heart. 22. For they are life unt...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. LET THINE EYES LOOK RIGHT ON, AND LET THINE EYELIDS LOOK STRAIGHT BEFORE THEE. Be straightforward in thy aims and thy...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ANCESTRAL WISDOM. THE TWO PATHS In Proverbs 4:1 the teacher lays stress on the fact that his instruction is a repetition of his father's. No teaching was thought valuable save that which was handed do...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Keep your eye fixed on the goal: let nothing turn you aside into the devious paths of wickedness....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Wise words are like medicine. They benefit every part of our bodies....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    We look forward, when we follow God. We should not look away from him. Jesus warned about this in Luke 17:31-32. ‘Jesus said, “Do not begin the work, then look back! If you look back, you cannot serve...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 4 V1 My sons, listen to your father’s instruction. As you listen to me, you will understand more....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    LET THINE EYES LOOK RIGHT ON. — Comp. the advice of Sir. 7:36, “Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end,” and of Hebrews 12:2, to look “unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.”...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    עֵ֭ינֶיךָ לְ נֹ֣כַח יַבִּ֑יטוּ וְ֝ עַפְעַפֶּ֗יךָ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 5 EDUCATION: THE CHILD'S THOUGHT OF THE PARENT "Wisdom doth live with children round her knees." - Wordsworth. "He taught me, and said unto me," etc. Proverbs 4:4 THIS chapter begins with a...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GUIDE-POSTS ON THE WAY OF LIFE Proverbs 4:10-27 One or two sentences stand out in this section, demanding special attention. _The path of the just, etc_., Proverbs 4:18. We may compare this beautiful...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In this chapter there are three addresses. The first is of the nature of personal testimony (verses Pro 4:1-9). The next two are exhortations to fidelity (verses Pro 4:10-27). The father urges his own...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Steps. Be attentive to thy own affairs, Proverbs xvii. 24._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to al...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    LET THINE EYES LOOK RIGHT ON,.... To the path of truth and holiness, without turning or looking to the right hand or left, as it is afterwards expressed; to the word of truth, as the rule to walk by;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Ver. 25. _Let thine eyes look right on._] _E regione, vel in rectum._ Let them be fixed upon right objects. Get that sto...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Put away a froward mouth_ All sorts of sinful words, which proceed from, and discover an evil heart. _Let thine eyes look right on_ Let thine intention be pure: direct all thine actions to a right en...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Let thine eyes look right on, straight ahead, without any self-seeking, AND LET THINE EYELIDS LOOK STRAIGHT BEFORE THEE, intent upon the duties of each day and hour....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    WARNING AGAINST WICKEDNESS...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-27 The way of evil men may seem pleasant, and the nearest way to compass some end; but it is an evil way, and will end ill; if thou love thy God and thy soul, avoid it. It is not said, Keep at a d...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Direct all thine actions by a good intention, to a right end, and keep thy mind fixed upon that way which leads to it, and neither look nor turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, as it follows,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 4:25 eyes H5869 look H5027 (H8686) ahead H5227 eyelids H6079 right H3474 (H8686)...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A GENERAL APPEAL TO HEAR HIS WORDS AND SAYINGS, AND INSTRUCTIONS WITH REGARD TO HIS HEART, MOUTH, EYES AND FEET (PROVERBS 4:20). Solomon urges those who hear him and read his words to take them to hea...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Proverbs 4:25 The rule of life, the comfort of life, the strength of life, the life of life, is, first to have an object, and then to live up to that object steadily and unquestioningly. A distinct,...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Proverbs 4:24 First the fountain, then the streams; first the heart and then the life-course. The issues of life are manifold: three of their main channels are mapped out here the "lips," the "eyes,...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Earnest exhortation to the study of true wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: True wisdom from God is the principle thing. It is that which recommends us to God, which be...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Proverbs 4:1. _Hear, ye children,_ a Hebraism, equivalent to wash, cleanse, and purify your ears. A grateful son here recites the domestic piety of an illustrious father. David talked much with his ch...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Put away from thee a froward mouth._ LAWS OF LIFE A law for the tongue, a law for the eye, a law for the mind, a law for the life. I. A demand for pure language. Speech is one of the grand peculia...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee._ EYES RIGHT These words occur in a passage wherein the wise man exhorts us to take care of all parts of our nature, whi...

  • The children's great texts of the Bible by James Hastings

    EYES FRONT Let thine eyes look right on, And let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Proverbs 4:25. Did you ever wonder why it is that we have only one pair of eyes and that they are in the fro...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 4:22. HEALTH, or “healing.” PROVERBS 4:23. “Above all other watching, keep thy heart,” some read: “Keep thy heart with all (kinds of) keeping.” _Issues_—“currents,” “outgoi...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION PROVERBS 4:1 7. _Seventh admonitory discourse. _We here enter upon the second group of admonitory discourses, as is indicated by the opening address, "my children," and which occurs again...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Continuing to his son. Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you might know understanding. For I give you good doctrine, don't forsake my law. For I was my father's son, ten...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Job 31:1; Matthew 6:22; Proverbs 23:33; Proverbs 23:5; Psalms 119:37

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    SACRED EXHORTATIONS Proverbs 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is well, now and then, to step aside and consider what God has to say to young men and women; as well as to consider what He says to their fath...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Right on — Direct all thine actions to a right end, and keep thy mind fixed upon that way which leads to it, and neither look or turn aside to the right — hand or the left....

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