Proverbs 5:21
What meaning of the proverbs 5:21 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 5:21 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings."
What does Proverbs 5:21 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings."
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....
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...
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 spiri...
PROVERBS 5:1; PROVERBS 5:10; PROVERBS 5:20. Three hortatory discourses exactly similar to those in Proverbs 5:2 and Proverbs 5:3. The subject is the praise of Wisdom, and the description of the blessi...
MAN. A MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14. Illustrations: Cain (Genesis 4:5; Genesis 4:6); Babel's builders (Genesis 11:4); Sodom (Genesis 18:21, &c.); Uzzah (2Sa 6:6, 2 Samuel 6:7; 1 Chronicles 15:13.Number...
_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....
FOR THE WAYS OF A MAN ARE BEFORE THE LORD— See Psalms 139. Instead of _pondereth,_ in the next clause, we may read _measureth._...
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....
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...
5:21 man (a-5) _ Ish_ . paths. (b-17) Or 'path.' see Note i, ch. 2.9....
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...
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,...
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....
כִּ֤י נֹ֨כַח ׀ עֵינֵ֣י יְ֭הוָה דַּרְכֵי ־אִ֑ישׁ וְֽ כָל ־מַעְגְּלֹתָ֥יו מְפַלֵּֽס׃...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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 comf...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
CHASTITY CONTRASTED WITH UNCHASTITY...
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 acti...
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...
Proverbs 5:21 ways H1870 man H376 before H5227 eyes H5869 LORD H3068 ponders H6424 (H8764) paths H4570 Proverbs 15:3; 2 Chronicles 16:9; Job 31:4, Job 34:21; Psalms 11:4,...
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 epilog...
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...
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....
_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...
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 Proverbs 4:26). It also warns...
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.— Proverbs...
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...
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...
2 Chronicles 16:9; Hebrews 4:13; Hosea 7:2; Jeremiah 16:17; Jeremiah 17:10; Jeremiah 23:24; Jeremiah 32:19; Job 31:4; Job 34:21; Proverbs 1