Focused Passage

Proverbs 20:30

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

30 Lashes and wounds scour evil, and beatings cleanse the inmost parts.

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Verse 30

Original words

Lashes חַבֻּר֣וֹת H2250 Noun - feminine plural construct and wounds פֶּ֭צַע H6482 Noun - masculine singular scour תַּמְרִיק H4838 Noun - masculine singular evil בְּרָ֑ע H7451 Preposition-b | Adjective - masculine singular and beatings וּ֝מַכּ֗וֹת H4347 Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct cleanse the inmost parts חַדְרֵי־ H2315 Noun - masculine plural construct . . . בָֽטֶן׃ H990 Noun - feminine singular

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