Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, I have made my lev pure, 1 I am tahor from my chattat? 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
In Context
10Differing weights, and differing measures, 1 both of them are alike to'evah to Hashem. 1
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46If they sin against Thee, (for there is no adam that sinneth not), and Thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the oyev (enemy), so that they carry them away captives unto the eretz of the oyev, far or near;
Job 14:4Who can bring a tahor (clean thing) out of a tameh (an unclean)? + 14:4 cf. Ro 5:12 1 Loh echad (No one). 1
Job 25:4Mah yitzdak Enosh im El (how then can man be justified, set right, with G-d?) 1 Or how can he be clean that is born of isha? 1
Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely indeed there is not a tzaddik upon earth, that doeth tov, and sinneth not. + 7:20 Ro 3:23
James 3:2For all of us stumble variously. If anyone as far as lashon hora is concerned, does not stumble, this one is an ish tamim able to bridle also the entire guf (body). + 3:2 1Kgs 8:46; Ps 39:1; Prov 10:19
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 →