26A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 20:26
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 26
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A wiseחָכָ֑םH2450Adjective - masculine singularkingמֶ֣לֶךְH4428Noun - masculine singularseparates outמְזָרֶ֣הH2219Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singularthe wickedרְ֭שָׁעִיםH7563Adjective - masculine pluraland drivesוַיָּ֖שֶׁבH7725Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singularthe threshing wheelאוֹפָֽן׃H212Noun - masculine singularover themעֲלֵיהֶ֣םH5921Preposition | third person masculine plural