Proverbs 20:9
Who saith, 'I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?'
Young's Literal Translation
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 with his eyes all evil,
10A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them [are] an abomination to Jehovah.
Cross References
1 Kings 8:46'When they sin against Thee (for there is not a man who sinneth not), and Thou hast been angry with them, and hast given them up before an enemy, and they have taken captive their captivity unto the land of the enemy far off or near;
Job 14:4Who giveth 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 doth good and sinneth not.
James 3:2for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one [is] a perfect man, able to bridle also 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 →