Proverbs 5:21
For, before the eyes of Yahweh, are the ways of a man,—and, all his tracks, doth he consider:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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
Cross References
Job 14:16For, now, my steps, thou countest, Thou wilt not pass over my sin:
Job 31:4Would, he, not see my ways? and of all my steps, take account?
Psalms 11:4Yahweh, is in his holy temple As for Yahweh, in the heavens, is his throne, His eyes, behold—His eyelashes test the sons of men.
Psalms 119:168I have kept thy precepts, and thy testimonies, For, all my ways, are before thee.
Psalms 139:3My path and my couch, hast thou examined, and, all my ways, thou well knowest.
Jeremiah 16:17For mine own eyes are upon all their ways, they have not been hid from my face—neither hath their iniquity been concealed from being straight before mine 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 →