Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, I have made my heart clean. I am pure from my sin?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
In Context
8A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
10Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them alike are an abomination to LORD.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46If they sin against thee (for there is no man that sins not), and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, afar off or near,
Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?
Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth that does good, and sins not.
James 3:2For we all stumble in many things. If any man does not stumble in word, this is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:9
8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes. Here is, 1. The character of a good governor: He is a king that deserves to be called so who sits in the throne, not as a throne of honour, to take his ease, and take state upon him, and oblige men to keep their distance, but as a throne of judgment, that he may do justice, give redress to the injured and punish the injurious, who makes his business his delight and loves no pleasure comparably to it, who does not devolve the… Read the whole commentary →