Proverbs 5:21

For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.

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In The King James Version

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

In Context

20Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

22The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.

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Cross References

Job 14:16For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.

Job 31:4Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?

Psalms 11:4The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men.

Psalms 119:168I have been ruled by your orders; for all my ways are before you.

Psalms 139:3You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.

Jeremiah 16:17For my eyes are on all their ways: there is no cover for them from my face, and their evil-doing is not kept secret from my eyes.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 5:16-23

Conjugal Fidelity Enjoined. 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. 16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. 17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. 18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. 19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. 20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange… Read the whole commentary →

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