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O Yahweh, don`t your eyes look on truth? you have stricken them, but they were not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
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God Seeks Inner Truth
Commentators unanimously explain that when the verse says God's 'eyes look upon truth,' it refers to inner sincerity, faithfulness, and integrity of heart. God sees past outward religious acts to the true condition of a person's spirit. As John Calvin notes, this is like 1 Samuel 16:7, where God 'looks on the heart,' valuing genuine uprightness far more than external performances.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Upon the truth - God looks to the “faith,” the upright purpose of the heart, and without it the nominal allegiance of an oath is an abomina…
19th Century
Anglican
Upon the truth. —The Hebrew word, which has no article, implies truth in the inward parts, faithfulness, as well as truth…
Baptist
O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth?
If there is any truthful man anywhere, God sees him. His eyes are upon him, he regards him…
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16th Century
Protestant
Some give a strained interpretation of the beginning of the verse, or rather pervert it, as if the Prophet had said that God would not turn His eye…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth ? &c.] That is, you have no regard to such deceitful men, such hypocritical wor…
None could be found who behaved as upright and godly men. But the Lord saw the true character of the people through all their disguises.
The…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, he excludes the remedies in which they might have been able to trust:
The holiness of men.
Concerning this, there are…