Proverbs 20:9
Who is able to say: “My heart is clean. I am pure from sin?”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
In Context
8The king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters all evil with his gaze.
10Diverse weights, diverse measures: both are abominable with God.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46But if they sin against you, for there is no man who does not sin, and you, being angry, deliver them to their enemies, and they will have been led away as captives to the land of their enemies, whether far or near,
Job 14:4Who can make him clean who is conceived of unclean seed? Are you not the only one who can?
Job 25:4Is it right for man to compare himself to God, or to appear pure though he is born of woman?
Ecclesiastes 7:20Wisdom has strengthened the wise more than ten princes of a city.
James 3:2For we all offend in many ways. If anyone does not offend in word, he is a perfect man. And he is then able, as if with a bridle, to lead the whole body around.
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 →