Proverbs 15:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Destruction; put for the place of destruction, by a usual metonymy; the place and state of the damned, of which men know nothing but by Divine revelation. The hearts; whose thoughts and affections, though they lie deep, discover themselves by outward signs and actions.

Proverbs 15:11

11 Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?