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.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

8A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.

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Verse 8

Original words

A kingמֶ֗לֶךְH4428Noun - masculine singularwho sitsיוֹשֵׁ֥בH3427Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singularonעַל־H5921Prepositiona throneכִּסֵּא־H3678Noun - masculine singular constructto judgeדִ֑יןH1779Noun - masculine singularsifts outמְזָרֶ֖הH2219Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singularallכָּל־H3605Noun - masculine singular constructevilרָֽע׃H7451Adjective - masculine singularwith his eyesבְעֵינָ֣יוH5869Preposition-b | Noun - cdc | third person masculine singular

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