Proverbs 20:9
Who says, “I have purified my heart, || I have been cleansed from my sin?”
Literal Standard Version
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 a throne of judgment, || Is scattering all evil with his eyes,
10A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, || Even both of them [are] an abomination to YHWH.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46When they sin against You (for there is not a man who does not sin), and You have been angry with them, and have given them up before an enemy, and they have taken captive their captivity to the land of the enemy far off or near;
Job 14:4Who gives a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
Job 25:4And what? Is man righteous with God? And what? Is he pure—born of a woman?
Ecclesiastes 7:20Because there is not a righteous man on earth that does good and does not sin.
James 3:2for we all make many stumbles; if anyone does not stumble in word, this one [is] a perfect man, able to also bridle 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 →