“He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.”
— WEB
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“He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.”
— WEB
“He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.”
— KJV
“He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: But with kings upon the throne He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.”
— ASV
(Pe1 3:12). God does not forsake the godly, as Job implied, but "establishes," or makes them sit on the throne as kings (Sa1 2:8; Psa 113:7-8). True of believers in the highest sense, already in part (Pe1 2:9; Rev 1:6); hereafter fully (Rev 5:10; Job 22:5). and they are--that they may be.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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