Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Proverbs 20:9
A warning voice against the spirit, which, ignorant of its own guilt, is forward to condemn others.
A warning voice against the spirit, which, ignorant of its own guilt, is forward to condemn others.
Verse Proverbs 20:9. _WHO CAN SAY, I HAVE MADE MY HEART CLEAN_] No man. But thousands can testify that the blood of Jesus Christ has cleansed them from all unrighteousness. And he is _pure from his si...
CHAPTER 20 PROVERBS AS TO PERSONAL CONDUCT Proverbs of warning and instructions as to personal conduct are found mostly in this chapter; a number of them are of special interest if applied to Solomon....
PROVERBS 20. We have still further traces in Proverbs 20:9; Proverbs 20:24 of the sceptical spirit and the obstinate questionings of self characteristic of the later Greek period of Jewish thought. P...
CAN. is able to. I AM PURE, &C. Illustrations: Job before he learned his lesson (Job 9:17; Job 10:7; Job 11:4; Job 16:17;...
Comp. Psalms 19:12; Jeremiah 2:22; Luke 18:9-14....
DISCOURSE: 802 NO ABSOLUTE PERFECTION HERE BELOW Proverbs 20:9. _Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?_ THE great characteristic of the Proverbs is wisdom; as that of the Ps...
WHO CAN SAY, I HAVE MADE MY HEART CLEAN— _If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us,_ says St. John. But here is our comfort, _If we confess our sins, he is faith...
CHAPTER 20 TEXT Proverbs 20:1-10 1. Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise, 2. The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: He that provoketh him...
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? WHO CAN SAY (WITH TRUTH), I HAVE MADE MY HEART CLEAN. Nay, we ought to say, "Create in me a clean heart, O God" (.) I AM PURE FROM...
'What mortal when he saw, Life's voyage done, his heavenly Friend, Could ever yet dare tell Him fearlessly: “I have kept uninfring'd my nature's law; The inly-written chart Thou gavest me, To guide m...
1. RAGING] RV 'a brawler.' IS deceived] RM 'reeleth.' It makes a man sneer, quarrel and reel about....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 20 V1 Wine is like a man who insults you. Beer is like a man who shouts at you. If wine and beer tempt you, then you are not wise....
See verse 6. We cannot say this (1 John 1:8). Only Jesus can truly say this. However, if we trust in God, then God forgives our evil actions. We are God’s children. We do not continue to do evil thing...
WHO CAN SAY, I HAVE MADE MY HEART CLEAN? — Though we may have done our best by self-examination and confession, and repentance and trust in the atoning blood of Christ to obtain remission of sin, stil...
מִֽי ־יֹ֭אמַר זִכִּ֣יתִי לִבִּ֑י טָ֝הַ֗רְתִּי מֵ...
CHAPTER 21 IDLENESS "After the autumn gathering the slothful does not plough; he asks in the harvest, and there is nothing."- Proverbs 20:4 WE have already in the sixth lecture caught a glimpse of t...
SOBRIETY; INDUSTRY; HONESTY Proverbs 20:1-15 Strong drink is the greatest of all foes to human happiness. It gains an influence over men by fair promises, but when once it is entrenched, it mocks at...
Verse Proverbs 20:9. This is the eternal challenge which has but one answer. When a man recognizes this he begins to inquire for a Saviour. Verse Proverbs 20:14. "It is bad, it is bad," is the descrip...
_Sin. Protestants, "my sin?" We know not when it is remitted. (Haydock) --- Without a special revelation, no one can be secure, 1 John i. 8., and Ecclesiastes ix. 1. (Bayn.) (St. Augustine in Psalm cx...
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him. A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes. Who can say, I have made my heart clean...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
WHO CAN SAY, I HAVE MADE MY HEART CLEAN,.... The heart of than is naturally unclean, the mind, conscience, understanding, will, and affections; there is no part clean, all are defiled with sin; and th...
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? Ver. 9. _Who can say, I have made my heart clean?_] That can I, saith the proud Pharisee and the Popish justiciary. _Non habeo, Domine,...
_Who can say, I have made my heart clean?_ No man can say that he hath made his own heart clean: but God can _create in man a clean heart_, as David expresses himself, Psalms 51:10, (on which see the...
V. 9. WHO CAN SAY, I HAVE MADE MY HEART CLEAN, purifying it to the point of moral perfection, I AM PURE FROM MY SIN? The answer is clearly given in the question and stated, Ecclesiastes 7:20....
WHO CAN SAY? no man living upon earth can say this truly and sincerely. Compare 1 Kings 8:46 Job 14:4, Job 15:14 Ecclesiastes 7:20...
Proverbs 20:9 say H559 (H8799) heart H3820 clean H2135 (H8765) pure H2891 (H8804) sin H2403...
Proverbs 20:9 This is a Gospel question before the time of the Gospel. All the great conditions of the human mind you find as distinctly in the Old Testament as in the New; all the questions that sha...
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions regarding the ways of folly. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Here in this imperfect state, no person can claim to be sinless, but the just man, walking by the rule o...
Proverbs 20:1. _Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging._ In the book of Ecclesiasticus intoxication is connected with poverty, with harlots, with destruction: chap. Proverbs 19:1. Cyrus, after notic...
_Who can say, I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin?_ PURITY OF HEART I. Who can say, i have made my heart clean? We read of some who have clean hands, which implies an abstinence from o...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 20:8 This catalog of proverbs looks at judgment from various angles. The purpose of a KING, representing human government, is to restrain evil through acts of judgment (v....
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 20:6. Miller reads the first clause of this verse, “_Much of the mere man one calls his goodness_,” _i.e._, “Much that is merely human.” He allows, however, that the usual re...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 20:1 WINE IS A MOCKER; or, scorner, the word (_luts_) being taken up from the last chapter. The liquor is, as it were, personified, as doing what men do under its influence. Thus...
Into chapter 20. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise (Proverbs 20:1). He will have more to say about wine as we move along in our study next week,...
1 Corinthians 4:4; 1 John 1:8; 1 Kings 8:46; 2 Chronicles 6:36;...