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Prov 5:21

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 5:21 · Douay-Rheims
“The Lord beholdeth the ways of man, and considereth all his steps.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“The Lord looks upon the ways of man, etc. Let adulterers not think they are covered by the darkness of night against the wall, nor heretics that their schemes can be hidden, because the darkness will not be obscured from the Lord, and night will be illuminated like day.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.