Proverbs 5:21 {22}
Good News Translation
The LORD sees everything you do. Wherever you go, he is watching.

New Revised Standard Version
For human ways are under the eyes of the LORD, and he examines all their paths.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD sees everything, and he watches us closely.

New American Bible
Indeed, the ways of each person are plain to the LORD’s sight; all their paths he surveys;

Douay-Rheims Bible
His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.

Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of the Lord in every place behold the good and the evil.

2 Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the Lord behold all the earth, and give strength to those who with a perfect heart trust in him. Wherefore thou hast done foolishly, and for this cause from this time wars shall arise against thee.

Job 31:4 Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?

Job 34:21 For his eyes are upon the ways of men, and he considereth all their steps.

Psalm 11:4 For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: but what has the just man done?

Psalm 17:3 Thou hast proved my heart, and visited it by night, thou hast tried me by fire: and iniquity hath not been found in me.

Psalm 139:1-12 Unto the end, a psalm of David. Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me: . . .

Jeremiah 16:17 For my eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, and their iniquity hath not been hid from my eyes.

Jeremiah 17:10 I am the Lord who search the heart, and prove the reins: who give to every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of his devices.

Jeremiah 23:24 Shall a man be hid in secret places, and I not see him, saith the Lord? do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord?

Jeremiah 32:19 Great in counsel, and incomprehensible in thought: whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the children of Adam, to render unto every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his devices.

Hosea 7:2 And lest they may say in their hearts, that I remember all their wickedness: their own devices now have beset them about, they have been done before my face.

Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature invisible in his sight: but all things are naked and open to his eyes, to whom our speech is.

Revelation 2:18,23 And to the angel of the church of Thyatira write: These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like to a flame of fire and his feet like to fine brass. . . .

Context
Avoiding Immorality
20The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps. 21His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.22He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.…
Cross References
Hebrews 4:13
Neither is there any creature invisible in his sight: but all things are naked and open to his eyes, to whom our speech is.

Job 14:16
Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins.

Job 31:4
Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?

Job 34:21
For his eyes are upon the ways of men, and he considereth all their steps.

Psalm 119:168
I have kept thy commandments and thy testimonies: because all my ways are in thy sight.

Proverbs 4:26
Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace.

Proverbs 5:6
Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 15:3
The eyes of the Lord in every place behold the good and the evil.

Jeremiah 16:17
For my eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, and their iniquity hath not been hid from my eyes.

Jeremiah 29:23
Because they have acted folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with the wives of their friends, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I commanded them not: I am the judge and the witness, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 32:19
Great in counsel, and incomprehensible in thought: whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the children of Adam, to render unto every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his devices.

Hosea 7:2
And lest they may say in their hearts, that I remember all their wickedness: their own devices now have beset them about, they have been done before my face.

Proverbs 5:20
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