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Prov 22:12

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Prov 22:12 · Douay-Rheims
“The eyes of the Lord preserve knowledge: and the words of the unjust are overthrown.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
735
A.D.
Bede Patristic
A.D. 673–735
“"The eyes of the Lord keep knowledge," etc. The divine inspection always keeps in the Church the knowledge of the truth which it taught; the words of heretics, indeed all speech contrary to piety and justice, because it is not preserved by the ruling Lord, is subverted along with its author.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.