Proverbs 5:21
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
Webster Bible
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 wilt thou, 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 thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
Job 31:4Doth 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 thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.
Psalms 139:3Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
Jeremiah 16:17For my eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid 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 →