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

biblegateway Pro 15:11

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

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

If Sheol and Abaddon lie open in front of the LORD how much more the human heart!

biblegateway Pro 15:11

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

Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD; how much more the hearts of the children of man!

bibleoremus Pro 15:11

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

Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD; how much more does the human heart!

biblegateway Pro 15:11

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

Hell and destruction [are] before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

biblegateway Pro 15:11

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

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.”