Proverbs 4:25 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 4:25

Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

KJV

Parallel translations

4 additional translations

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WEB

Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.

DBT

Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

ASV

Let thine eyes look right on, And let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

YLT

Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee.

About this book

Old Testament

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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Cross-references

12 verses on the floor

Psalms 119:37
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
Matthew 6:22
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Job 31:1
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
Psalms 5:8
Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices1

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. 8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. 9 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PRO 4:25PSA 119:37 1JN 2:16
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
PRO 4:25MAT 6:22 LUK 11:34-36
PRO 4:25MAT 6:22 2CO 11:3
PRO 4:25JOB 31:1 JAS 1:14-15
PRO 4:25JOB 31:1 MAT 5:28-29
PRO 4:25JOB 31:1 PSA 119:37
PRO 4:25JOB 31:1 PRO 6:25
PRO 4:25PSA 119:37 ISA 33:15

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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