Proverbs 20:9
c Say not, I will avenge myself on my enemy; but wait on the Lord, that he may help thee.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
In Context
8Whenever a righteous king sits on the throne, no evil thing can stand before his presence.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46If it be that they shall sin against thee, (for there is not a man who will not sin,) and thou shalt bring them and deliver them up before their enemies, and they that take them captive shall carry them to a land far or near,
Job 14:4For who shall be pure from uncleanness? not even one;
Job 25:4For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?
Ecclesiastes 7:20For there is not a righteous man in the earth, who will do good, and not sin.
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 →