Proverbs 4:24-27 ESV

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 4:23-27

The heart and its issues I. LIFE CENTRED IN THE HEART . ( Proverbs 4:23 .) Physically, we know this is so. It is a self-acting pump, a fountain of vital force. All the physical activities are derived from it. Spiritually, it is so. The connection of the heart with emotion is recognized in all languages. It is feeling in the widest sense that makes us what we are. II. THE HEART MUST BE , THEREFORE , THE PECULIAR OBJECT OF OUR SOLICITUDE . ( ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 4:24

The following admonitions of this chapter bear reference to the outward conduct of life. They continue the subject of Proverbs 4:23 by showing how the guarding of the heart is to be done. There is the most; intimate connection between the heart as the fountain of the moral life and of the conduct of life, which, though determined by the condition of the heart, in its turn reacts upon the heart as the moral centre, and keeps it pure. Thus the subject is treated from its two sides. On ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 4:25

Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids lock straight before thee. "To look right on " and "to look straight before one" is to fix the eyes steadily and unswervingly upon an object before them, not to allow the gaze to deflect either to the right hand or to the left. As a noun, the word nokakh, rendered "right on," signifies what is straight in front of one; adverbially, it has the same meaning as that given in the Authorized Version. The corresponding "before" ( neged ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 4:25-27

Spiritual drilling The whole man must be drilled into form and disciplined into orderly action, just as the whole armour of God is necessary for the protection of the soldier of Christ. It is not enough for safety to wear a helmet while the breast is exposed, nor to bare the head while the lees are covered; and it is not enough for service that part of our nature is trained to obedience. We must seek to have all in right order. I. THE HEART . This must be guarded most sedulously,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 4:26

Ponder the path of thy feet; properly, make straight or level the path of thy feet. The command carries on the idea of the previous verse. Simplicity of aim in the moral life is to be accompanied by attention to the moral conduct. The sense is, remove every obstacle which may impede or render insecure the way of moral life, and thus avoid every false step. The meaning "to ponder," i.e. "to weigh," seems to be given to the verb palles, piel of the unused palas here used only in ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 4:27

This verse, with which the teacher closes this discourse, is very closely connected with Proverbs 4:26 , which it more fully explains. The command is the parallel of Proverbs 4:25 . As in Proverbs 4:25 , the gaze is to be concentrated. So here the feet are not to deflect nor turn aside to byways. Nothing is to be permitted to draw one off from the right way, neither adversity, nor prosperity, nor anything which can possess the power of temptation (Bayne and Wardlaw). Remove thy foot... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 4:24-26

Proverbs 4:24-26. 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 end, namely, the glory of God in thy eternal salvation, and keep thy mind fixed upon that way which leads to it, and neither look or turn aside to the right hand or to the left. Ponder the path of thy feet Consider thy actions before thou doest them, and see that they agree with... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Proverbs 4:1-27

Wisdom the inner guide (4:1-27)The writer further instructs his ‘sons’ by passing on teaching that his own ‘father’ once gave him. The main point of that teaching was that, more than anything else, he was to get wisdom and insight (4:1-5). The first step in getting wisdom is the desire for it. Once obtained, wisdom will bring into the life of the possessor a new measure of security, honour and beauty (6-9).By living according to God’s wisdom, people will have true freedom, and at the same time... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Proverbs 4:26

Ponder the path, &c. Illustrations: Abraham (Genesis 24:1-9 . See note on Proverbs 3:5 , Proverbs 3:6 ); Eleazar (Genesis 24:5 ); Joshua (Proverbs 24:15 ); Ruth (Proverbs 1:16-18 ); David (Psalms 39:1 ); Hezekiah (Psalms 119:50 ); The good wife (Proverbs 31:27 ); Daniel (Proverbs 1:8 ; Proverbs 6:3 , Proverbs 6:4 ); contrast Asa (2 Chronicles 16:1-9 ). 2Ch 5:1-23 (B p. 865). THE FOREIGN WOMAN. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 4:25

Proverbs 4:25. 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, your attention, to things which are foreign to you, to the persons and the affairs of others: For the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth." See chap. Proverbs 17:24. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 4:23-27

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 4:24

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 4:25

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 4:25-27

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 4:26

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 4:27

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 4:24-26

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Proverbs 4:1-27

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Proverbs 4:26

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Proverbs 4:25

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