Psalms 139:3
You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.
BSB
ASV
Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, And art acquainted with all my ways.
KJV
Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
Thou compassest my path and my lying down,.... The Targum adds, "to study in the law.'' His walk in the daytime, and every step he took, and his lying down at night. It denotes his perfect knowledge of all his actions, day and night; he surrounds every path of man, that they cannot escape his knowledge. Or, "thou winnowest", as some render the word (c); he distinguishes actions; he discerns and separates the good from the bad, or the goodness of an action from the evil and imperfection of it, as in winnowing the wheat is separated from the chaff.
Thou compassest my path and my lying down. My path and my pallet, my running and my resting, are alike within the circle of thine observation. Thou dost surround me even as the air continually surrounds all creatures that live. I am shut up within the wall of thy being; I am encircled within the bounds of thy knowledge. Waking or sleeping I am still observed of thee. I may leave thy path, but you never leave mine. I may sleep and forget thee, but thou dost never slumber, nor fall into oblivion concerning thy creature.
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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Jeremiah 23:24“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.
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The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.
Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?
You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”
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Job 31:4Does He not see my ways and count my every step?
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For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees his every step.
For 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…
For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.
