Proverbs 22:12
The LORD’s eyes keep watch over knowledge, but He frustrates the words of the faithless.
BSB
ASV
The eyes of Jehovah preserve him that hath knowledge; But he overthroweth the words of the treacherous man.
KJV
The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.
The eyes of the Lord - (the Divine providence) preserve knowledge - This providence has been wonderfully manifested in preserving the sacred oracles, and in preserving many ancient authors, which have been of great use to the civil interests of man.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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2 Chronicles 16:9For the eyes of the LORD roam to and fro over all the earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are fully devoted to Him. You have acted foolishly in…
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For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.
For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.
For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
