“Your people will sin against you. I know this because every person sins. And you will be angry with your people. You will let their enemies defeat them. Their enemies will make them prisoners and carry them to some faraway land.
Proverbs 20:9 - Easy To Read Version Can any person really say that he has always done his best? Can any person really say that he has no sin? \{No!\} Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? [I Kings 8:46; II Chron. 6:36; Job 9:30; 14:4; Ps. 51:5; I John 1:8.] American Standard Version (1901) Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? Common English Bible Who can say, “I’m innocent to the core; I’m cleansed from my sin”? Catholic Public Domain Version Who is able to say: "My heart is clean. I am pure from sin?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Who can say: My heart is clean, I am pure from sin? |
“Your people will sin against you. I know this because every person sins. And you will be angry with your people. You will let their enemies defeat them. Their enemies will make them prisoners and carry them to some faraway land.
“People will sin against you—there is not a person that does not sin—and you will become angry with them. You will let an enemy defeat them, and be captured and forced to go to a land far away or near.
“But what does something clean\par have in common with something dirty?\par Nothing!\par
“A man can’t really be pure.\par A person {\cf2\super [25]} can’t be more right than God!\par
Compared to God, no person is good.\par No human being {\cf2\super [45]} can really be pure.\par
So are we Jews better than other people? No! We have already said that Jews and non-Jews are the same. They are all guilty of sin.
I don’t know of any wrong that I have done. But that does not make me innocent (without guilt). The Lord is the One who judges me.
We all make many mistakes. If there were a person who never said anything wrong, then that person would be perfect. A person like that would be able to control their whole body, too.