Proverbs 5:21
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his activities.
Updated King James 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
20And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.
Cross References
Job 14:16For now you number my steps: do you not watch over my sin?
Job 31:4Does not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
Psalms 11:4The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
Psalms 119:168I have kept your precepts and your testimonies: for all my ways are before you.
Psalms 139:3You compass my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
Jeremiah 16:17For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from 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 →