Kawikaan 5:21

Filipino Cebuano Bible

21 Kay ang mga dalan sa tawo anaa sa atubangan sa mga mata ni Jehova; Ug gipatag niya ang tanang mga alagianan niya.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 15:3, 2 Chronicles 16:9, Job 31:4, Job 34:21, Psalms 11:4, Psalms 17:3, Psalms 139:1-12, Jeremiah 16:17, Jeremiah 17:10, Jeremiah 23:24, Jeremiah 32:19, Hosea 7:2, Hebrews 4:13, Revelation 2:18, Revelation 2:23

Reciprocal: Genesis 16:13 - Thou 2 Samuel 22:25 - in his eye sight Job 14:16 - thou numberest Job 24:23 - yet his eyes Job 33:27 - I have sinned Psalms 90:8 - our Psalms 119:168 - for all my Psalms 139:3 - and art acquainted Proverbs 16:2 - but Proverbs 24:12 - doth not he that Isaiah 37:28 - I know Jeremiah 29:23 - even I Amos 9:8 - the eyes

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the ways of a man [are] before the eyes of the Lord,.... Both good and bad; the ways of a chaste and virtuous man, who cleaves to his own wife and shuns the harlot, which are approved of by the Lord; and the ways of a lewd man, all the impure thoughts, desires, and contrivances of his mind, and all the steps he takes to commit lewdness, and all the filthy actions he is guilty of, these are all open and naked to the omniscient God: the adulterer seeks the twilight, and flatters himself with secrecy, not considering that the eye of God is upon him; there are many, that, were their filthy actions known to men, they would be ashamed of them; and this consideration greatly deters from them, and puts them upon secret ways of committing them; much more should the consideration of the divine omniscience weigh with them to avoid them; which is the argument here made use of;

and he pondereth all his goings; he not only sees them, but takes notice of them, and observes them, and ponders them in his mind, and lays them up there, in order to bring to an account for them hereafter; yea, he weighs them in the balance of justice, and will proportion the punishment unto them, according to the rules of it; when it must go ill with those that follow such lewd practices, Hebrews 13:4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

One more warning. The sin is not against man, nor dependent on man’s detection only. The secret sin is open before the eyes of Yahweh. In the balance of His righteous judgment are weighed all human acts.

Pondereth - Note the recurrence of the word used of the harlot herself (see Proverbs 1:6 note): she ponders not, God does.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 5:21. For the ways of a man — Whether they are public or private, God sees all the steps thou takest in life.