Proverbs 4:25 (BSB)

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

From Proverbs 4. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 4:25

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 4:20-27: Solomon, having warned us not to do evil, here teaches us how to do well. It is not enough for us to shun the occasions of sin, but we must study the methods of duty. I. We must have a continual regard to the word of God and endeavour that it may be always ready to us. 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 4:25: 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; to Christ, the author and finisher of faith, from whom all grace, and the supplies of it, are to be had; and to the mark, for...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 4:25: Let . . . before thee--that is, pursue a sincere and direct purpose, avoiding temptations.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 4:23-27: Pro 4:23-27 After this general preface the exhortation now becomes special: 23 Above all other things that are to be guarded, keep thy heart, For out from it life has its issues. 24 Put away from thee perverseness of mouth, And waywardness of lips put far from thee. 25 Thine eyes should look straight forward, And thine eyelids look straight to the end before thee.