Focused Passage

Proverbs 20:9

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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9Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?

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Verse 9

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Whoמִֽי־H4310Interrogativecan sayיֹ֭אמַרH559Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singularI have kept my heartלִבִּ֑יH3820Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singularpureזִכִּ֣יתִיH2135Verb - Piel - Perfect - first person common singularI am cleansedטָ֝הַ֗רְתִּיH2891Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singularfrom my sinמֵחַטָּאתִֽי׃H2403Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular

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