Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents

139:7-12 There Is No Place I Can Be Hidden from Your View. The next section makes it clear that there is no way the singer can escape such knowledge: there is nowhere in the universe that God will not be present to lead and hold the believer (vv. 7-10), and nowhere too dark for God to see him (vv. 11-12). Some have supposed that the impulse to flee (v. 7) comes from a guilty conscience, or from a desire for independence, but this is unlikely: these verses take delight in the fact that God will "lead" him, an entirely positive benefit (cf. v. 24; 23:3; 73:24; 143:10), and "hold" him (cf. 73:23). There is no place where he is beyond God's care (see 139:5).