8 A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 20:8
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 8
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A king מֶ֗לֶךְ H4428 Noun - masculine singular who sits יוֹשֵׁ֥ב H3427 Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular on עַל־ H5921 Preposition a throne כִּסֵּא־ H3678 Noun - masculine singular construct to judge דִ֑ין H1779 Noun - masculine singular sifts out מְזָרֶ֖ה H2219 Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular all כָּל־ H3605 Noun - masculine singular construct evil רָֽע׃ H7451 Adjective - masculine singular with his eyes בְעֵינָ֣יו H5869 Preposition-b | Noun - cdc | third person masculine singular