Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, I have made my heart pure, I am cleansed from my sin.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
In Context
8A king that sitteth on the throne of justice scattereth away with his eyes all evil.
10Divers weights, and divers measures, are both of them alike an abomination of the Lord.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46If they sin against thee, [for there is no man that may not sin,] and thou be angry with them, and give them up before the enemy, so that their captors carry them away captive unto the land of the enemy, [be it] far or near;
Job 14:4Who can make a clean thing out of an unclean? not one [thing].
Job 25:4How then can man be justified with God? or how can be one that is born of woman?
Ecclesiastes 7:20For no man is so righteous upon earth, that he should do always good, and never 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 →