PROVERBS 24:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 8
“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?”
If you say, 'But we knew nothing about this,' does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay everyone according to what he has done?'—a rhetorical challenge to those who claim ignorance as excuse for inaction, establishing that God judges our culpability for failing to act. The series of rhetorical questions emphasizes that no excuse escapes God's knowledge. The theological significance involves the principle that God judges both action and inaction, both commission and omission.
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