“ Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. ”
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:...
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
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 eye...
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 an...
Ancestral Wisdom. The Two Paths In Proverbs 4:1-9 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 h...
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.”...
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...
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 b...
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 ow...
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 a...
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 b...
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 s...
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 e...
Parental Instructions. 20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from...
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...
A General Appeal To Hear His Words And Sayings, And Instructions With Regard To His Heart, Mouth, Eyes And Feet ( Proverbs 4:20-27 ). Solomon urges those who hear him and read his words to take th...
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...
Proverbs 4:24-27 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 "...
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...
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 pe...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 4:1-20 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...
Warning against Wickedness
Job 31:1 ; Matthew 6:22 ; Proverbs 23:33 ; Proverbs 23:5 ; Psalms 119:37
Sacred Exhortations Proverbs 4:1-27 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 t...
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.