Proverbs 5:21
Hebrew Text— Proverbs 5:21For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
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Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.
But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”
Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are Yahweh’s eyes, which run back and forth through the whole earth.”
Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.
They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”
There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.
But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.
For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.
But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.
Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.
Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.
For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.
He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.
so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men);
You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?
“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.
In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.
He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him.
Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all.
Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?
I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.
Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.
O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.
In the prophets of Jerusalem I have also seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness. They have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.”
Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.
great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;
They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.
She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”
For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”
But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies, for all my ways are before you.
She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.
because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.
Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.
God gives them security, and they rest in it. His eyes are on their ways.
He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.
If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?
But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” says Yahweh.
I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.