Proverbs 5:21
For the ways of a man are before the eyes of God, and he looks on all his paths.
LXX2012 (US English)
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
20Be not intimate with a strange woman, neither fold yourself in the arms of a woman not your own.
22Iniquities ensnare a man, and every one is bound in the chains of his own sins.
Cross References
Job 14:16But you have numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape you?
Job 31:4Will he not see my way, and number all my steps?
Psalms 11:4who have said, We will magnify our tongue; our lips are our own: who is Lord of us? 1
Psalms 139:3They have sharpened their tongue as the tongue of a serpent; + 139:3 Rom 3:13 the poison of asps is under their lips. Pause. 1
Jeremiah 16:17For my eyes are upon all their ways; and their iniquities have not been hidden 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 →