Pro 15:3 | KingComments | STEP | God knows and sees through everyone completely. He is omniscient and omnipresent and possesses a complete knowledge of His entire creation, of people and of things. Nothing is hidden from Him. He watches everything and everyone, as a watchman does guarding a city. Nothing and no one eludes Him ( ; ; ). This is necessary if He is to be the Judge of every man (cf. ). The thought continues in the second line of verse. The knowledge that God sees everything is a warning to “the evil” people and a comfort to “the good” people. The bad people are both the great sinners and the neat people who live neatly, but neither allow God into their lives. They are both those who sin openly and those who sin in secret. God wants them to become aware that He sees them so that they will repent. The good people are also sinners in themselves, but they do good because they have acknowledged that they are sinners. They live out of a good relationship with God. That relationship has become good because of their confession of sins and their faith in God’s forgiveness of these sins. God can give that forgiveness on the basis of Christ’s work on the cross that He accomplished for every penitent sinner. Knowing that God is watching them is an encouragement to live life to His glory ( ).

‏ Proverbs 15:3

The LORD Sees Everything and Everybody

God knows and sees through everyone completely. He is omniscient and omnipresent and possesses a complete knowledge of His entire creation, of people and of things. Nothing is hidden from Him. He watches everything and everyone, as a watchman does guarding a city. Nothing and no one eludes Him (Jer 23:24; Psa 11:4 ; Psa 33:13-14; Heb 4:13). This is necessary if He is to be the Judge of every man (cf. Jer 32:19).

The thought continues in the second line of verse. The knowledge that God sees everything is a warning to “the evil” people and a comfort to “the good” people. The bad people are both the great sinners and the neat people who live neatly, but neither allow God into their lives. They are both those who sin openly and those who sin in secret. God wants them to become aware that He sees them so that they will repent.

The good people are also sinners in themselves, but they do good because they have acknowledged that they are sinners. They live out of a good relationship with God. That relationship has become good because of their confession of sins and their faith in God’s forgiveness of these sins. God can give that forgiveness on the basis of Christ’s work on the cross that He accomplished for every penitent sinner. Knowing that God is watching them is an encouragement to live life to His glory (2Chr 16:9).