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

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Verse 9

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Who מִֽי־ H4310 Interrogative can say יֹ֭אמַר H559 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular I have kept my heart לִבִּ֑י H3820 Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular pure זִכִּ֣יתִי H2135 Verb - Piel - Perfect - first person common singular I am cleansed טָ֝הַ֗רְתִּי H2891 Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular from my sin מֵחַטָּאתִֽי׃ H2403 Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular

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