Proverbs Chapter 15 verse 11 Holy Bible
Sheol and Abaddon are before Jehovah: How much more then the hearts of the children of men!
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Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!
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Sheol and destruction are before Jehovah; how much more then the hearts of the children of men!
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Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
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Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh-- How much more then the hearts of the children of men!
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Sheol and destruction `are' before Jehovah, Surely also the hearts of the sons of men.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - Hell and destruction are before the Lord. The two words rendered "hell" and "destruction" are respectively Sheol and Abaddon, Infernus and Perditio, Ἅιδης and ἀπώλεια (comp. Proverbs 27:20). The former is used generally as the place to which the souls of the dead are consigned - the receptacle of all departed spirits, whether good or bad. Abaddon is the lowest depth of hell, the "abyss" of Luke 8:31; Revelation 9:2, etc.; 20:l, etc. The clause means that God's eye penetrates even the most secret corners of the unseen world. As Job (Job 26:6) says, "Sheol is naked before him, and Abaddon hath no covering" (comp. Psalm 139:7, etc.). How much more then the hearts of the children of men? (For the form of the expression, comp. Proverbs 11:31 and Proverbs 19:7; and for the import, Proverbs 16:2; Proverbs 21:2; Jeremiah 17:10.) If God knows the secrets of the world beyond the grave, much more does he know the secret thoughts of men on earth. The heart is the source of action (see Matthew 15:19, etc.).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) Hell and destruction.--"Hell" is here the general name for the unseen world (Hades) beyond the grave, so called, according to one derivation, from its always "asking" for more victims, and never being satisfied. (Comp. Proverbs 27:20.) "Destruction" (Abaddon) is the lowest hell, corresponding to the "abyss" of Luke 8:31; Revelation 9:1; Revelation 9:11; the abode of evil spirits and the lost. (For the thought, comp. Job 26:6, and Psalm 139:8.) . . .
