Proverbs 5:21
For the ways of each are before the eyes of YHWH, || And He is pondering all his paths.
Literal Standard 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
22His own iniquities capture the wicked, || And he is holden with the ropes of his sin.
Cross References
Job 14:16But now, You number my steps, || You do not watch over my sin.
Job 31:4Does He not see my ways, || And number all my steps?
Psalms 11:4YHWH [is] in His holy temple: YHWH—His throne [is] in the heavens. His eyes see—His eyelids try the sons of men.
Psalms 119:168I have kept Your precepts and Your testimonies, || For all my ways are before You!
Psalms 139:3You have fanned my path and my lying down, || And have been acquainted [with] all my ways.
Jeremiah 16:17For My eyes [are] on all their ways, || They have not been hidden from My face, || Nor has their iniquity been concealed from before 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 →