Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, I have cleansed my heart, I am pure from my sin?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 the throne of judgment, scattereth, with his eyes, all wrong.
10Divers weights, and divers measures, an abomination to Yahweh, are they, both.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46When they sin against thee—for there is, no son of earth, that sinneth not, and thou shalt be angry with them, and deliver them up before an enemy,—who shall carry them away as their captives, into the land of the enemy, far or near;
Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one!
Job 25:4How then shall, a mortal, be just with GOD? Or how shall he be pure who is born of a woman?
Ecclesiastes 7:20For, as for men, there is none righteous in the earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
James 3:2For, oft, are we stumbling, one and all: If anyone, in word, doth not stumble, the same, is a mature man, able to curb even 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 →