Proverbs 20:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

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; Job 23:10; Job 23:11; Job 27:5; Job 29:14; Job 31:1. Compare Pro 33:9. But not after, See Pro 42:5, Pro 42:6). None of God's own people say this. Not David. (2 Samuel 12:13. Compare Psalms 51:1-7); not Psalmist (Pro 119:176); not Ezra (Ezra 9:6); not Nehemiah (Nehemiah 9:33; Nehemiah 9:34); not Isaiah (Isaiah 6:5; Isaiah 6:6); not Daniel (Daniel 9:8); not Peter (Luke 5:8); not John (1 John 1:8); not James (James 3:2); not Paul (Romans 7:18; 1 Timothy 1:15).

Proverbs 20:9

9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?