Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
In Context
8A king sitting on the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
10Divers weights, divers measures, even both of them are abomination to Jehovah.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46If they have sinned against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and give them up to the enemy, and they have carried them away captives unto the enemy's land, far or near;
Job 14:4Who can bring a clean [man] out of the unclean? Not one!
Job 25:4And how should man be just with God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman?
Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not.
James 3:2For we all often offend. If any one offend not in word, *he* [is] a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body too.
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 →