💡WEB · Proverbs 20:9
What does Proverbs 20:9 mean?
"Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”"
— Proverbs 20:9 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?
A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.
A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”
Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.
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