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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....
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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 ac...
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CHAPTER 5
_ 1. Shun the strange woman and sinful passion (Proverbs 5:1)_
2. The life of chastity (Proverbs 5:15)
Proverbs 5:1. It is a warning against literal fornication and the
accompanying spirit...
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PROVERBS 5:1; PROVERBS 5:10; PROVERBS 5:20. Three hortatory discourses
exactly similar to those in Proverbs 5:2 and...
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_For_; as an additional reason for avoiding sin.
_pondereth_ The primary sense of the Heb. word, which is the same as
in Proverbs 5:6 of this chapter, is adhered to in R.V. text: HE MAKETH
LEVEL, i.e....
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FOR THE WAYS OF A MAN ARE BEFORE THE LORD— See Psalms 139. Instead
of _pondereth,_ in the next clause, we may read _measureth._...
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TEXT Proverbs 5:15-23
15.
Drink waters out of thine own cistern,
And running waters out of thine own well.
16.
Should thy springs be dispersed abroad,
And streams of water in the streets?
17....
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For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth
all his goings.
FOR THE WAYS OF MAN ARE BEFORE THE EYES OF THE LORD, AND HE PONDERETH
ALL HIS GOINGS - (; ; .) This answers by...
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5:21 man (a-5) _ Ish_ . paths. (b-17) Or 'path.' see Note i, ch. 2.9....
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UNHOLY PASSION. HALLOWED LOVE
A dissuasive from immorality addressed exclusively to men. The two
leading thoughts are (1) the disastrous consequences of adultery; loss
of honour, property, life, oppo...
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LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM
PROVERBS
_KEITH SIMONS_
CHAPTER 5
Chapter 5 is a poem. The poem has two subjects:
1. A married woman tempts a man who is not her husband.
2. Evil things are like this woman,...
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Perhaps, like David, we do some wrong things in secret (2 Samuel
Chapter s 11 and 12). A woman might tempt a man. They might think that
nobody knows. They are wrong because God knows. He sees our secr...
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FOR THE WAYS OF MAN... — Another reason for avoiding sin is the
certainty of detection by the Judge, whose “eyes run to and fro
through the whole earth” (2 Chronicles 16:9), comp. Psalms 11:4....
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כִּ֤י נֹ֨כַח ׀ עֵינֵ֣י יְ֭הוָה
דַּרְכֵי ־אִ֑ישׁ...
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CHAPTER 6
THE WAYS AND ISSUES OF SIN
"His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with
the cords of his sin. He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the
greatness of his fo...
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This is a parental exhortation against impurity. It is expressed in
words of great delicacy and beauty, but it is none the less urgent and
searching. It recognizes one of the most subtle and natural
t...
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For the ways of man [are] before the (m) eyes of the LORD, and he
pondereth all his goings.
(m) He declares that unless a man joins to his wife both in heart and
in outward conversation, he will not...
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Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine
own well. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters
in the streets. Let them be only thine own, and not strange...
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_LIFE’S LEVEL PATH_
‘The level path of life … He maketh level all his paths.’
Proverbs 5:6; Proverbs 5:21 (R.V.).
I. IT IS A REMARKABLE EXPRESSION—‘THE LEVEL PATH OF LIFE’; and
there is great comfo...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9.
There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter
s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly
so...
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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 Lo...
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For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD, and he
pondereth all his goings.
Ver. 21. _For the ways of man, &c._] _Turpe quid acturus te sine
teste time._ _a_ A man that is about any evil...
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_And why wilt thou be ravished with a strange woman?_ Consider a
little, and deny, if thou canst, that it is an unaccountable folly to
seek that satisfaction and comfort in a vile harlot, which thou m...
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CHASTITY CONTRASTED WITH UNCHASTITY...
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For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and He pondereth
all his goings, His omniscience marking the conduct of every person
and noting every unchaste desire, thought, word, and act....
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15-23 Lawful marriage is a means God has appointed to keep from these
destructive vices. But we are not properly united, except as we attend
to God's word, seeking his direction and blessing, and act...
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BEFORE THE EYES OF THE LORD; God sees all thy filthy actions, though
done with all possible cunning and secrecy. He taketh an exact account
of all their doings, that he may recompense them according t...
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Proverbs 5:21 ways H1870 man H376 before H5227 eyes H5869 LORD H3068
ponders H6424 (H8764) paths H4570...
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EPILOGUE. HE MUST RECOGNISE THAT A MAN'S WAYS ARE OPEN TO YHWH'S EYES,
AND MUST NOT FORFEIT THE LEVEL PATHS THROUGH FOLLY (PROVERBS 5:21).
The passage, like all previous passages, ends with an epilogu...
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CONTENTS: Caution against the sin of whoredom.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son.
CONCLUSION: We ought industriously to avoid everything that might be
an occasion of the sin of adultery or a step to...
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Proverbs 5:3. _The lips of a strange woman drop as a honey-comb._ She
employs all her arts for bread, for drunkenness, for crime. How
wretched, how bitter is the life of a ruined and abandoned woman....
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_For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord._
THE METHOD OF PROVIDENCE FOR RESTRAINING EVIL
God announces Himself the witness and judge of man. The evil-doer can
neither elude the all-seeing...
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PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 5:21 FOR A MAN’S WAYS ARE BEFORE THE
EYES OF THE LORD reminds the righteous of how the Lord blesses the one
who stays on the good path (compare...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Proverbs 5:21. Pondereth, or “marketh out.”
PROVERBS 5:22. SHALL BE HOLDEN, rather “is holden.”
PROVERBS 5:23. WITHOUT, “for lack of.”
MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—
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EXPOSITION
PROVERBS 5:1
8. _Eighth admonitory discourse. Warning against adultery, and
commendation of marriage. _The teacher, in this discourse, recurs to a
subject which he has glanced at before in...
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Now my son, attend unto my wisdom, bow your ear to my understanding:
That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge
(Proverbs 5:1; Proverbs 5:2).
And now he's going to warn his...
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2 Chronicles 16:9; Hebrews 4:13; Hosea 7:2; Jeremiah 16:17; Jer