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Proverbs 15:3

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

KJV

In omni loco, oculi Domini contemplantur bonos et malos.

Vulgate

ἐν παντὶ τόπῳ ὀφθαλμοὶ Κυρίου· σκοπεύουσιν κακούς τε καὶ ἀγαθούς.

LXX

The eyes of Jehovah are in every place, Keeping watch upon the evil and the good.

ASV

בְּֽ/כָל מָ֭קוֹם עֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה צֹ֝פ֗וֹת רָעִ֥ים ו/טוֹבִֽים

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

וֹ
v
noun · 398×
ט֣וֹב
tvb
verb · 562×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
ךָ
k
noun · 894×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
צֹּפֶה֙
tsph
verb · 37×
רָ֑ע
r'
verb · 664×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Pet 3:12 — For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
  • 2Chr 16:9 — For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henc
  • 2Chr 16:9 — For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henc
  • Amos 2:1 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
  • Ezek 1:18 — As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
  • Gen 3:8 — And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
  • Gen 6:12 — And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
  • Gen 16:7 — And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
  • Gen 16:13 — And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?
  • Heb 4:13 — Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
  • Heb 4:13 — Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
  • Jer 16:17 — For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
  • Jer 16:17 — For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
  • Jer 23:24 — Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
  • Jer 23:24 — Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
  • Jer 32:19 — Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
  • Job 24:23 — Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
  • Job 28:24 — For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
  • Job 31:4 — Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
  • Job 31:4 — Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
  • Job 34:21 — For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
  • Job 34:21 — For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
  • Prov 5:21 — For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
  • Prov 5:21 — For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
  • Ps 11:4 — The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
  • Ps 33:13 — The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
  • Ps 139:2 — Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
  • Zech 4:10 — For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through