Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, “I have kept my heart clean; I am free from my sin?”
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
In Context
8The king, sitting upon the throne of judgment, Scattereth with his eyes all the wicked like chaff.
10Divers weights and divers measures,—Both of them are an abomination to the LORD.
Cross References
Job 14:4Who can produce a clean thing from an unclean? Not one.
Job 25:4How then can man be righteous before? Or how can he be pure that is born of woman?
Ecclesiastes 7:20Truly there is not a righteous man upon the earth who doeth good and sinneth not.
James 3:2For in many things we all offend. If any one offend not in speech, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
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 →