Proverbs 5:21
For before the eyes of the Lord are the ways of man, and all his tracks doth he weigh in the balance.
Leeser Tanakh
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
20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of an alien woman?
Cross References
Job 14:16Yet now thou numberest my steps: and thou waitest not with [the punishment of] my sin.
Job 31:4Behold, he truly seeth my ways, and numbereth all my steps;
Psalms 11:4The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord hath his throne in the heavens, his eyes behold, his eyelids prove, the children of men.
Psalms 119:168I have observed thy precepts and thy testimonies; because all my ways are before thee.
Psalms 139:3My walking and my lying down hast thou limited, and with all my ways art thou acquainted.
Jeremiah 16:17For my eyes are directed upon all their ways, they are not hidden from my face, nor is their iniquity 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 →