Proverbs 24:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־תֹאמַ֗ר הֵן֮ לֹא־יָדַ֢עְנ֫וּ זֶ֥ה הֲ‍ֽלֹא־תֹ֘כֵ֤ן לִבּ֨וֹת ׀ הֽוּא־יָבִ֗ין וְנֹצֵ֣ר נַ֭פְשְׁךָ ה֣וּא יֵדָ֑ע וְהֵשִׁ֖יב לְאָדָ֣ם כְּפָעֳלֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

For tōʾmar behold not yādaʿnû this? Is-not tōkēn libbôt He-yābîn and-nōṣēr napšəkā He yēdāʿ and-hēšîb to-ʾādām according-to-pāʿŏlô

Grammar Details

• *tōʾmar*: Qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you say
• *yādaʿnû*: Qal perfect, 1st person common plural - we knew
• *tōkēn*: Qal participle, masculine singular - weigher/examiner
• *libbôt*: masculine plural noun - hearts
• *yābîn*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he understands
• *nōṣēr*: Qal participle, masculine singular - keeper/guardian
• *napšəkā*: feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your soul
• *yēdāʿ*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he knows
• *hēšîb*: Hiphil perfect waw consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - he returns/repays
• *pāʿŏlô*: masculine singular noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his deed

Word Meanings

• *tōkēn*: weigher/examiner/one who tests
• *nōṣēr*: keeper/guardian/one who watches
• *hēšîb*: returns/repays/gives back

Referenced Verses

• Job 34:11 : 11 For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
• 1 Sam 16:7 : 7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
• Ps 121:8 : 8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
• Prov 21:2 : 2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
• Eccl 5:8 : 8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
• Rev 2:23 : 23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
• Rom 2:6 : 6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
• Ps 121:3 : 3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
• Ps 62:12 : 12 Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest{H8762)} to every man according to his work.
• Ps 66:9 : 9 Which holdeth{H8802)} our soul in life, and suffereth{H8804)} not our feet to be moved.
• 1 Sam 25:29 : 29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
• Ps 7:9 : 9 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
• Ps 17:3 : 3 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
• Ps 44:21 : 21 Shall not God search this out{H8799)}? for he knoweth{H8802)} the secrets of the heart.
• 1 Sam 2:6 : 6 The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
• Prov 5:21 : 21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
• Jer 17:10 : 10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
• Jer 32:19 : 19 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
• Dan 5:23 : 23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
• Matt 16:27 : 27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
• Acts 17:28 : 28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
• Rom 2:16 : 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
• 1 Cor 4:5 : 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
• 2 Cor 5:10 : 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
• Heb 4:12-13 : 12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
• Rev 1:18 : 18 {G2532} I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
• Rev 2:18 : 18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;
• Rev 20:12-15 : 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
• Rev 22:12 : 12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.