30Lashes and wounds scour evil, and beatings cleanse the inmost parts.
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.
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Verse 30
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Lashesחַבֻּר֣וֹתH2250Noun - feminine plural constructand woundsפֶּ֭צַעH6482Noun - masculine singularscourתַּמְרִיקH4838Noun - masculine singularevilבְּרָ֑עH7451Preposition-b | Adjective - masculine singularand beatingsוּ֝מַכּ֗וֹתH4347Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural constructcleanse the inmost partsחַדְרֵי־H2315Noun - masculine plural construct. . .בָֽטֶן׃H990Noun - feminine singular