Proverbs 15:3 (BSB)
The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.
From Proverbs 15. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 15:3
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 15:3: The great truths of divinity are of great use to enforce the precepts of morality, and none more than this - That the eye of God is always upon the children of men. 1. An eye to discern all, not only from which nothing can be concealed, but by which every thing is actually inspected, and nothing overlooked or looked slightly upon: The eyes of...
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 15:3: The eyes of the Lord are in every place,.... Which are expressive of his omniscience, of the full, clear, distinct, and perfect knowledge, which he has of all creatures and things; so that nothing is hid from him, but all open and manifest to him; as they are to Christ the essential Word, Heb 4:13; and also of the providence of God with respect to...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 15:3: beholding--watching (compare Pro 5:21; Psa 66:7).
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 15:3: Pro 15:3 3 The eyes of Jahve are in every place, Observing the evil and the good. The connection of the dual עינים with the plur. of the adjective, which does not admit of a dual, is like Pro 6:17, cf. 18. But the first line is a sentence by itself, to which the second line gives a closer determination, as showing how the eyes of God are everywhere (cf.