Proverbs 20:9
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Revised Version 1895
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 judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
10Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive unto the land of the enemy, far off or near;
Job 14:4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
James 3:2For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, 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 →