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Proverbs 20:8-10
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

8 A king seated on the throne of judgment
    dispels all evil with his glance.[a]
9 Who can say, “I have made my heart clean,(A)
    I am cleansed of my sin”?[b]
10 Varying weights, varying measures,
    are both an abomination to the Lord.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 20:8 The royal throne is established in justice and the king is the agent of that justice.
  2. 20:9 A claim to sinlessness can be merely self-deception; see 16:2; cf. also 15:11.
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