Proverbs 5:21
The Lord beholds the ways of man, and he considers all his steps.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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 are you seduced, my son, by a strange woman, and why are you kept warm by the bosom of another?
22His own iniquities take hold of the impious, and he is bound by the cords of his own sins.
Cross References
Job 14:16Indeed, you have numbered my steps, but you have been lenient with my sins.
Job 31:4Does he not examine my ways and number all my steps?
Psalms 11:4May the Lord scatter all deceitful lips, along with the tongue that speaks malice.
Psalms 139:3Those who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all day long they constructed conflicts.
Jeremiah 16:17For my eyes are upon all their ways. They have not been hidden from my face, and their iniquity has not been concealed 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 →