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12Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
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Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: …
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-14)God’s glory, (that is, his goodness to man) appears much in the works of creation, but much more in and by divine revelation. The holy scripture, as it is a rule both of our duty to God and of our expectation from him, is of much greater use and benefit to us than day or night, than the air we breathe in, or the light of the sun. The discoveries made of God by his works might have served if man ha…
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