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Proverbs 20:30
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Stripes that wound scour away evil,And strokes reach the innermost parts of the body.
Stripes that wound scour away evil, And strokes reach the innermost parts.
Blewe woundes driue away euyll, and stripes in the inwarde partes of the body.
Wounding stripes purge away evil, and strokes [purge] the inner parts of the belly.
30 Blows that hurt cleanse away evil,As do stripes the inner depths of the heart. [fn]
The stripes of a wound cleanse away evil, and strokes the inward parts of the heart.
A beating can remove evil and make you completely clean.
Wounding blows cleanse away evil, And beatings purge the innermost parts.
The blewnes of a wound cleanseth away euill: so doe stripes the inward parts of the belly.
The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.
Woundes dryue awaye euell, and so do stripes the inwarde partes of the body.
A good thrashing purges evil; punishment goes deep within us.
Blows that wound cleanse away evil, And strokes reach to the innermost parts.
Stripes that wound cleanse away evil; And strokes reach the innermost parts.
By the wounds of the rod evil is taken away, and blows make clean the deepest parts of the body.
Stripes that wound cleanse away evil; And strokes [reach] the innermost parts.
The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so [do] stripes the inward parts of the belly.
Beatings and wounds cleanse away evil, and floggings cleanse the innermost being.
A severe beating can knock all of the evil out of you!
Blows that wound purge away evil, yes, beatings [cleanse] one's inmost being.
The blewnes of the wound serueth to purge the euill, and the stripes within the bowels of the belly.
Misery and torment befall the evil men; and wounds smite the inner parts of their body.
Wounding blows cleanse away evil, And beatings purge the innermost parts.
Sharp wounds cleanse away evil; so do stripes that reach the inward parts.
Beatings that hurt clean away sin. And beatings make even the inside parts clean.
Bruises and contusions befall bad men; and plagues shall come in the inward parts of their belly.
Stripes that wound cleanse away evil: and strokes reach the innermost parts of the belly.
Lashes and wounds scour evil, and beatings cleanse the inmost parts.
Blows that wound cleanse away evil; beatings make clean the innermost parts.
Blows that out in, cleanse away wickedness, and, smitings, enter the chambers of the inner man.
The blueness of a wound shall wipe away evils: and stripes in the more inward parts of the belly.
The blows of a wound will cleanse evil, as will beatings of the innermost part.
Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts.
Bruising wounds clean away evil, And blows cleanse the innermost parts.
Hard punishment will get rid of evil, and whippings can change an evil heart.
Sometimes it takes a painful experience to make us change our ways.
Lashes and wounds purge away evil, and beatings cleanse the innermost parts.
The wannesse of wounde schal wipe aweie yuels, and woundis in the priuyere thingis of the wombe.
Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts.
The bandages of a wound thou removest with the evil, Also the plagues of the inner parts of the heart!
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Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
cleanseth away evil: Heb. is a purging medicine against evil
stripes: Proverbs 19:25, Proverbs 22:15, Isaiah 27:9, Hebrews 12:10
Reciprocal: Proverbs 20:27 - searching
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil,.... Rubs it off and scours it away, as the word m signifies, or is a clearing and rubbing it off; some men must be beaten black and blue, or must have very sore correction, before they can be reclaimed and reformed from their evil ways; so some interpret it of the evil man n: sanctified afflictions to God's people are the means of purging away their iniquities, their dross, and their sin; but there is nothing so effectually cleanses from sin as the blood of Jesus, or heals or cures of it as his blue wounds and stripes; see Isaiah 27:9;
so [do] stripes the inward part of the belly; or heart and conscience; by means of corrections and chastisement men are brought to an inward sense of sin; they are shown their transgressions wherein they have exceeded, and are commanded to return from iniquity, Job 36:9; they lament and mourn over sin, confess it and forsake it; and then may the inwards of the heart, the mind and conscience, defiled with them, be said to be cleansed from them; especially when led by these stripes and corrections to the stripes, wounds, and blood of Christ which, being applied, cleanse from all, sin inwardly and outwardly.
m תמריק "abstesio", Piscator, Mercerus, Cocceius; "detersio", Montanus, Michaelis; "effricatio", Schultens. n ברע "in malo, sub, homine", Vatablus, Mercerus, Gejerus, Michaelis; "in malo (homine nequam)", Schultens, so Aben Ezra.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Better, The blueness of a wound is a cleansing of evil, so are the stripes that go down to the inward parts of the belly.
The open sores of wounds left by the scourge, unclean and foul as they seem, are yet a cleansing, purifying process for evil; so also are the stripes that reach the inward parts of the belly, i. e., the sharp reproofs, the stings of conscience, which penetrate where no scourge can reach, into the inner life of man. Chastisement, whatever be its nature, must be real; the scourge must leave its mark, the reproof must go deep.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 20:30. The blueness of a wound — חברות chabburoth, from חבר chabar, to unite, to join together. Does it not refer to the cicatrice of a wound when, in its healing, the two lips are brought together? By this union the wound is healed; and by the previous discharge the lace-rated ends of fibres and blood-vessels are purged away. So stripes, though they hurt for the time, become the means of correcting and discharging the moral evil of the inmost soul, the vice of the heart, the easily-besetting sin.
In this chapter, verses fourteen to nineteen, inclusive, are wanting in the Septuagint and Arabic; and the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth, come in after the twenty-second. It is difficult to account for these variations, unless they were occasioned by the change of leaves in MSS.
