25Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
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Cross-References
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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. The sayings of wisdom must be our principles by which we must govern ourselves, our monitors to warn us of duty and danger; and…
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