Proverbs 5:21 (BSB)

For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.

From Proverbs 5. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 5:21

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 5:15-23: Solomon, having shown the great evil that there is in adultery and fornication, and all such lewd and filthy courses, here prescribes remedies against them. I. Enjoy with satisfaction the comforts of lawful marriage, which was ordained for the prevention of uncleanness, and therefore ought to be made use of in time, lest it should not prove effectual for the cure of that which it might have prevented.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 5:21: 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...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 5:21: For the ways of man [are] before the 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 escape the judgments of God.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 5:21-23: Pro 5:21-23 That the intercourse of the sexes out of the married relationship is the commencement of the ruin of a fool is now proved. 21 For the ways of every one are before the eyes of Jahve, And all his paths He marketh out. 22 His own sins lay hold of him, the evil-doer, And in the bands of his sins is he held fast.