Focused Passage

Proverbs 20:11

The LORD Searches the Heart: Sobriety, Justice, Counsel, Speech, and Honest Measures

The chapter moves from appetite and conflict, to hidden purposes and integrity, to royal justice and human impurity, to work and speech, to surety, fraud, counsel, and gossip, to family honor, inheritance, vengeance, and dishonest scales, and finally to providence, vows, royal judgment, the LORD's searching lamp, and painful correction.

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11 Even a young man is known by his actions—whether his conduct is pure and upright.

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Verse 11

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Even גַּ֣ם H1571 Conjunction a young man נָ֑עַר H5288 Noun - masculine singular is known יִתְנַכֶּר־ H5234 Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person masculine singular by his actions בְּ֭מַעֲלָלָיו H4611 Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular whether אִם־ H518 Conjunction his conduct פָּעֳלֽוֹ׃ H6467 Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular is pure זַ֖ךְ H2134 Adjective - masculine singular . . . וְאִם־ H518 Conjunction and upright יָשָׁ֣ר H3477 Adjective - masculine singular

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