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Forכִּיthere is noאֵיןrighteousצַדִּיקhuman beingאָדָםon the earthבָּאָרֶץwhoאֲשֶׁרdoesיַעֲשֶׂהgoodטּוֹבand does notוְלֹאsin.יֶחֱטָא
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Study it in the app“For there is no righteous human being on the earth who does good and does not sin.”
The wise man admits: no one does good without ever failingGraceThe Teacher admits that no one on earth is fully righteousTemptation
With the Hebrew beneath
Ecclesiastes 7:20, word by word
- righteousצַדִּיקtsadik
righteous
Someone who lives uprightly; also YHWH.
Where else “tsadik” appears- human beingאָדָםadam
human being
All humankind, men and women, as creatures God formed.
Where else “adam” appears- on the earthאָרֶץarets
earth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appears- doesיַעֲשֶׂהyaase
do
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “yaase” appears- goodטּוֹבtov
what is right
What is right and just, which God approves, the opposite of evil.
Where else “tov” appears- sinיֶחֱטָאyecheta
sin
To do wrong, fail God or another.
Where else “yecheta” appears
The context
19Wisdom makes strong the wise man more than ten rulers who are in the city.
20 · This verse (above)
21Also, to all the words that they speak do not give your heart, so that you do not hear your slave cursing you;