Proverbs 20:9
Who can say: My heart is clean, I am pure from sin?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
In Context
8The king, that sitteth on the throne of judgment, scattereth away all evil with his look.
10Diverse weights and diverse measures, both are abominable before God.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46But if they sin against thee (for there is no man who sinneth not) and thou being angry deliver them up to their enemies, so that they be led away captives into the land of their enemies far or near;
Job 14:4Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed ? is it not thou who only art?
Job 25:4Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?
Ecclesiastes 7:20Wisdom hath strengthened the wise more than ten princes of the city.
James 3:2For in many things we all offend. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man. He is able also with a bridle to lead about 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 →