Proverbs 5:21
I say that because Yahweh sees clearly everything that we do; he knows where we are going on the roads that we walk on.
Translation for Translators
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
22Evil men’s sinful desires hold them fast; their sins are like ropes that bind them.
Cross References
Job 14:16You would take care of [MET] me, instead of watching me to see if I would sin.
Job 31:4God certainly sees [RHQ] everything that I do, so why is he causing me to suffer? It is as though he counts every step that I take.
Psalms 11:4But Yahweh is sitting on his throne in his sacred temple in heaven, and he [SYN] watches everything that people do.
Psalms 119:168I obey ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►, and you see everything that I do.
Psalms 139:3When I travel and when I lie down, you know everything that I do.
Jeremiah 16:17I am watching them carefully. I see every sin that they commit. They will not be able to hide from me [MTY].
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 →