15 he who forms(A) the hearts of all,
    who considers everything they do.(B)

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15 He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.

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19 great are your purposes and mighty are your deeds.(A) Your eyes are open to the ways of all mankind;(B) you reward each person according to their conduct and as their deeds deserve.(C)

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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:

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21 would not God have discovered it,
    since he knows the secrets of the heart?(A)

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21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

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but they do not realize
    that I remember(A) all their evil deeds.(B)
Their sins engulf them;(C)
    they are always before me.

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And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.

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Therefore judge nothing(A) before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes.(B) He will bring to light(C) what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God.(D)

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Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

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26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.(A)

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26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

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Yet you, Lord, are our Father.(A)
    We are the clay, you are the potter;(B)
    we are all the work of your hand.(C)

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But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

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29 This only have I found:
    God created mankind upright,
    but they have gone in search of many schemes.”

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29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

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19 As water reflects the face,
    so one’s life reflects the heart.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:19 Or so others reflect your heart back to you

19 As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.

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12 If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,”
    does not he who weighs(A) the heart perceive it?
Does not he who guards your life know it?
    Will he not repay(B) everyone according to what they have done?(C)

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12 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

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Rich and poor have this in common:
    The Lord is the Maker of them all.(A)

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The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all.

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21 “His eyes are on the ways of mortals;(A)
    he sees their every step.(B)
22 There is no deep shadow,(C) no utter darkness,(D)
    where evildoers can hide.(E)

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21 For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

22 There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

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11 Surely he recognizes deceivers;
    and when he sees evil, does he not take note?(A)

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11 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?

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