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In every place, the eyes of Yahweh
    keep watch over the evil and the good.

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11 Sheol[a] and Abaddon[b] are before Yahweh,
    how much more[c] the hearts of the children of men!

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 15:11 A term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the Underworld
  2. Proverbs 15:11 Poetic synonym for “Sheol.” Only mentioned in the ot in relation to Sheol, the grave, or death.
  3. Proverbs 15:11 Literally “more for”

25 The house of the proud, Yahweh will tear it down,
    but he will maintain the property line[a] of the widow.

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  1. Proverbs 15:25 Literally “boundary”

29 Yahweh is far from the wicked,
    but the prayers of the righteous he will hear.

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