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12The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.

Proverbs 22:12

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 12)

Here is, 1. The special care God takes to preserve knowledge , that is, to keep up religion in the world by keeping up among men the knowledge of himself and of good and evil, notwithstanding the corruption of mankind, and the artifices of Satan to blind men’s minds and keep them in ignorance. It is a wonderful instance of the power and goodness of the eyes of the Lord , that is, his watchful prov...

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