21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his goings.


In Context

18 Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be you ravished always with her love.

20 And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his goings.

22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.

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

Proverbs 5:21 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:21For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:21For a man's ways are in full view of the Lord , and he examines all his paths.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:21The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:21For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah; And he maketh level all his paths.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:21For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and he pondereth all his paths.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he maketh level all his paths.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:21For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:21For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.