22 Do not say, “I will avenge this evil!” Wait on the LORD, and He will save you.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 20:22
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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Verse 22
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Do not אַל־ H408 Adverb say תֹּאמַ֥ר H559 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular I will avenge אֲשַׁלְּמָה־ H7999 Verb - Piel - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular this evil רָ֑ע H7451 Adjective - masculine singular Wait קַוֵּ֥ה H6960 Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine singular on the LORD לַֽ֝יהוָ֗ה H3068 Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular and He will save וְיֹ֣שַֽׁע H3467 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singular you לָֽךְ׃ Preposition | second person feminine singular