Focused Passage

Proverbs 20:14

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.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

14“Worthless, worthless!” says the buyer, but on the way out, he gloats.

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Verse 14

Original words

Worthlessרַ֣עH7451Adjective - masculine singularworthlessרַ֭עH7451Adjective - masculine singularsaysיֹאמַ֣רH559Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singularthe buyerהַקּוֹנֶ֑הH7069Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singularbut on the way outוְאֹזֵ֥לH235Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular-אָ֣זH227Adverbhe gloatsיִתְהַלָּֽל׃H1984Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person masculine singular

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