John Trapp on Proverbs 24:12

Verſ. 12. If thou ſayeſt, behold we knew it not, &c.] As no wool is ſo coarſe, but will take ſome colour; ſo there is no ſin ſo foul but will admit of ſome excuſe. Ignorance is commonly pleaded; wee know not this mans Caſe, the Juſtice of his Cauſe, the means of his Reſcue, &c. But be not deceived, God is not mocked. They that would mock him impoſturum faciunt & patientur, cozen themſelves, as the Emperour ſaid of him that ſold glaſſe for Pearl. Iſidor. Pſal. 11.4. Deo obſcura clarent, muta reſpondent, ſilentinm confitetur. Gods eyes behold, his eye-lids try the children of men. The former points out his knowledge, the latten his critical deſcant.

Doth not he that pondereth the heart conſider?] No man needs a window in his breſt (as the Heathen Momus wiſhed) for God to look in at; for every man before God is all window, Job 34.22. and his eyes are as a flaming fire, Revel. 1.14. that need no outward light, that ſee extra mittendo by ſending out a ray &c. that ſee thorow that tranſparent body, the world, called a ſea of glaſs. Revel. 4.6.