Proverbs 15:11

NETBible

Death and Destruction 1  are before the Lord – how much more 2  the hearts of humans! 3 

NIV ©

Death and Destruction lie open before the LORD—how much more the hearts of men!

NASB ©

Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD, How much more the hearts of men!

NLT ©

Even the depths of Death and Destruction are known by the LORD. How much more does he know the human heart!

MSG ©

Even hell holds no secrets from GOD--do you think he can't read human hearts?

BBE ©

Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!

NRSV ©

Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD, how much more human hearts!

NKJV ©

Hell and Destruction are before the LORD; So how much more the hearts of the sons of men.

KJV
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how much more then the hearts
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of the children
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NASB ©
Sheol
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and Abaddon
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lie open
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, How
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much
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the hearts
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of men
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N-NSM
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CONJ
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A-NSF
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PREP
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N-DSM
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ADV
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ADV
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NET [draft] ITL
Death
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and Destruction
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are before
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the Lord
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– how
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much
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more the hearts
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of humans
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Pa
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NETBible

Death and Destruction 1  are before the Lord – how much more 2  the hearts of humans! 3 

NET Notes

1 tn Heb “Sheol and Abaddon” (שְׁאוֹל וַאֲבַדּוֹן (shÿ’ol va’adon); so ASV, NASB, NRSV; cf. KJV “Hell and destruction”; NAB “the nether world and the abyss.” These terms represent the remote underworld and all the mighty powers that reside there (e.g., Prov 27:20; Job 26:6; Ps 139:8; Amos 9:2; Rev 9:11). The Lord knows everything about this remote region.

2 tn The construction אַף כִּי (’af ki, “how much more!”) introduces an argument from the lesser to the greater: If all this is open before the Lord, how much more so human hearts. “Hearts” here is a metonymy of subject, meaning the motives and thoughts (cf. NCV “the thoughts of the living”).

3 tn Heb “the hearts of the sons of man,” although here “sons of man” simply means “men” or “human beings.”