Proverbs 5:21

Yahweh sees everything a person does 1 and watches all the paths he takes. 1

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For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

In Context

20For why should you, my son, be captivated by an adulteress; 1 why should you embrace the breasts of an immoral woman? 1

22A wicked person will be seized by his own iniquities; 1 the cords of his sin will hold him tight. 1

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Cross References

Job 14:16You would number and care for my footsteps; 1 you would not keep track of my sin. 1

Job 31:4Does not God see my ways 1 and count all my steps? 1

Psalms 11:4Yahweh is in his holy temple; 1 his eyes watch, his eyes examine the children of mankind. 1

Psalms 119:168I keep your instructions and your solemn commands, 1 for you are aware of everything I do. TAV 1

Psalms 139:3You observe my path and my lying down; 1 you are familiar with all my ways. 1

Jeremiah 16:17For my eye is on all their ways; they cannot be hidden from before me. Their iniquity cannot be 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 →

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