He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.
Cross References
Job 10:4Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?
Job 11:11Surely He knows the deceit of men. If He sees iniquity, does He not take note?
Job 12:6The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure--those who carry their god in their hands.
Job 31:4Does He not see my ways and count my every step?
Job 34:21For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees his every step.
Psalm 119:168I obey Your precepts and Your testimonies, for all my ways are before You.
Treasury of Scripture
Though it be given him to be in safety, where on he rests; yet his eyes are on their ways.
it be given
Psalm 73:3-12
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked…
Jeremiah 12:1-3
Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? …
whereon
Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Isaiah 10:8-11
For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings? …
Isaiah 56:12
Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
yet his eyes
Psalm 10:13,14
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it…
Psalm 11:4,5
The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men…
Proverbs 5:21
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
