King James Version
Proverbs 20:7 in the King James Version says “The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.” — study this verse from Proverbs chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.”
Proverbs 20:7 · KJV
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? goodness: or, bounty
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
KJV Study — Public Domain
“man walketh”
H1980to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
“in his integrity”
H8537completeness; figuratively, prosperity; usually (morally) innocence
“are blessed”
H835happiness; only in masculine plural construction as interjection, how happy!
“his children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“after”
H310properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
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