Focused Passage

Proverbs 20:6

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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6Many a man proclaims his loving devotion, but who can find a trustworthy man?

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Verse 6

Original words

Manyרָב־H7230Noun - masculine singular constructa manאָדָ֗םH120Noun - masculine singularproclaimsיִ֭קְרָאH7121Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singularhisאִ֣ישׁH376Noun - masculine singularloving devotionחַסְדּ֑וֹH2617Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singularbut whoמִ֣יH4310Interrogativecan findיִמְצָֽא׃H4672Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singulara trustworthyאֱ֝מוּנִ֗יםH529Noun - masculine pluralmanוְאִ֥ישׁH376Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct

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