Proverbs 15:11
Good News Translation
Not even the world of the dead can keep the LORD from knowing what is there; how then can we hide our thoughts from God?

New Revised Standard Version
Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD, how much more human hearts!

Contemporary English Version
If the LORD can see everything in the world of the dead, he can see in our hearts.

New American Bible
Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD; how much more the hearts of mortals!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more the hearts of the children of men?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more the hearts of the children of men?

hell

Proverbs 27:20 Hell and destruction are never filled: so the eyes of men are never satisfied.

Job 26:6 Hell is naked before him, and there is no covering for destruction.

Psalm 139:8 If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present.

Revelation 1:18 And alive, and was dead. And behold I am living for ever and ever and have the keys of death and of hell.

the hearts

2 Chronicles 6:30 Hear thou from heaven, from thy high dwelling place, and forgive, and render to every one according to his ways, which thou knowest him to have in his heart: for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:

Psalm 7:9 The wickedness of sinners shall be brought to nought; and thou shalt direct the just: the searcher of hearts and reins is God. Just

Psalm 44:21 If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread forth our hands to a strange god:

Jeremiah 17:10 I am the Lord who search the heart, and prove the reins: who give to every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of his devices.

John 2:24,25 But Jesus did not trust himself unto them: for that he knew all men, . . .

John 21:17 He said to him the third time: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he had said to him the third time: Lovest thou me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things: thou knowest that I love thee. He said to him: Feed my sheep.

Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature invisible in his sight: but all things are naked and open to his eyes, to whom our speech is.

Revelation 2:23 And I will kill her children with death: and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts. And I will give to every one of you according to your works. But to you I say

Context
A Gentle Answer Turns Away Wrath
10Instruction is grievous to him that forsaketh the way of life: he that hateth reproof shall die. 11Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more the hearts of the children of men?12A corrupt man loveth not one that reproveth him: nor will he go to the wise.…
Cross References
Acts 1:24
And praying, they said: Thou, Lord, who knowest the heart of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,

Revelation 9:11
A king, the angel of the bottomless pit (whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek Apollyon, in Latin Exterminans).

1 Samuel 16:7
And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature: because I have rejected him, nor do I judge according to the look of man: for man seeth those things that appear, but the Lord beholdeth the heart.

2 Chronicles 6:30
Hear thou from heaven, from thy high dwelling place, and forgive, and render to every one according to his ways, which thou knowest him to have in his heart: for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:

Job 26:6
Hell is naked before him, and there is no covering for destruction.

Psalm 44:21
If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread forth our hands to a strange god:

Psalm 139:8
If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present.

Proverbs 15:10
Instruction is grievous to him that forsaketh the way of life: he that hateth reproof shall die.

Proverbs 17:3
As silver is tried by fire, and gold in the furnace: so the Lord trieth the hearts.

Proverbs 27:20
Hell and destruction are never filled: so the eyes of men are never satisfied.

Proverbs 15:10
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