"For the ways of man {are} before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings." — Proverbs 5:21

Proverbs 5:21 · KJV

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

— Proverbs 5:21

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. {sins: Heb. sin}

Proverbs 5 — Context

{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. {satisfy...: Heb. water thee} {be thou...: Heb. err thou always in her love}

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

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

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. {sins: Heb. sin}

He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

Cross References

Hebrews 4:13

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things {are} naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

Proverbs 15:3

The eyes of the LORD {are} in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

Job 34:21

For his eyes {are} upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

Jeremiah 32:19

Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes {are} open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings: {work: Heb. doing}

Jeremiah 23:24

Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

Hosea 7:2

And they consider not in their hearts {that} I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. {consider...: Heb. say not to}

Psalms 11:4

The LORD {is} in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne {is} in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

Jeremiah 16:17

For mine eyes {are} upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.