Proverbs 22:12 (BSB)

The LORD’s eyes keep watch over knowledge, but He frustrates the words of the faithless.

From Proverbs 22. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 22:12

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 22:12: Here is, 1. The special care God takes to preserve knowledge, that is, to keep up religion in the world by keeping up among men the knowledge of himself and of good and evil, notwithstanding the corruption of mankind, and the artifices of Satan to blind men's minds and keep them in ignorance.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 22:12: The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge,.... That is, the providence of God, whose eyes run to and fro throughout the whole earth; these preserve the knowledge of himself, even among the Heathens in some measure; for what may be known of God is manifest in them, and showed to them: more particularly his providence has preserved the Scriptures, the means of knowledge, which men...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 22:12: preserve--or guard. knowledge--its principles and possessors. overthroweth--utterly confounds and destroys the wicked.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 22:12: The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor. (h) Favour them that love knowledge.