Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Proverbs 15:3 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 3. 3The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
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Quick Meaning
This verse contributes the claim, image, or instruction “The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good”.
Read It With
- Proverbs 15:1–4
The line at Proverbs 15:3 contributes the claim, image, or instruction “The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good”. Its place in Proverbs 15:1–4 matters because the edited collection joins it to speech, listening, truth, and relational consequence, violence, predation, conflict, and protection, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Proverbs 15:3 appears here because it contributes the claim, image, or instruction “The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good”. Its contrast, image, or consequence tests the concerns gathered in Proverbs 15:1–4.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and...”
In plain language: reverent accountability before the LORD
This verse contributes the claim, image, or instruction “The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good”.
Why it matters: This wording gives the verse its distinct role inside the cluster.
How certain? strongWhat Remains True
Wisdom begins with reverent accountability to the LORD and refuses to make human insight self-sufficient. In Proverbs 15:3, that bounded truth is expressed through “The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and...,” not through a promise detached from its literary form.
How It Can Shape Life
- Bring the decision under truthful worship, moral accountability, and correction rather than using religious language to shield preference or power. For Proverbs 15:3, preserve the sequence: verse role (contributes the claim, image, or instruction “The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good”) -> contextual meaning in Proverbs 15:1–4 -> proportionate truth -> this accountable response.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Proverbs 15:1–4 — Speech, listening, truth, and relational consequence — A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir...Sources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
Where care is needed
This sentence saying states a context-shaped moral pattern. Its small-cluster boundary and degree of generality remain reviewable; exceptional outcomes do not make the observation meaningless or turn it into a guarantee.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, canonical order, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.
Exact location: Proverbs 15:1–4, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Proverbs
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology used only for the exact unit's lexical, grammatical, parallel, superscription, number-saying, and acrostic questions.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Prov.xml, OSIS 15:1-15:4
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Proverbs with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-attached textual, lexical, grammatical, syntactic, parallelism, and older-English controls for the exact range.
Exact location: NET Bible Proverbs PDF, printed pp. 1121-1125, exact tc/tn/sn entries attached to 15:1–4
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