22Do 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 notאַל־H408Adverbsayתֹּאמַ֥רH559Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singularI will avengeאֲשַׁלְּמָה־H7999Verb - Piel - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common singularthis evilרָ֑עH7451Adjective - masculine singularWaitקַוֵּ֥הH6960Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine singularon the LORDלַֽ֝יהוָ֗הH3068Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singularand He will saveוְיֹ֣שַֽׁעH3467Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singularyouלָֽךְ׃Preposition | second person feminine singular