Translations
He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
One who walks in wholeness, who works what is right, and who speaks truth in his inmost heart.
He who walks in wholeness of life, who does what is just, and whose inner self speaks only truth.
He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart,
Footnotes
Tamim (is a word of profound integrity—used of Noah (Gen. 6:9), demanded of Abraham ('walk before Me and be tamim', Gen. 17:1), and required of every sacrificial animal offered to God. It describes not moral perfectionism but completeness of orientation: a life without inner fracture, where the outside and inside match. The closing phrase emet b'levavo ('truth in his heart') is equally penetrating: levav is the ancient Hebrew seat of will, memory, and intention. The bar is not merely honest speech but inward alignment—what a person says to themselves when no one else is listening. F.O.G. renders tamim as 'wholeness' to honor its semantic range; F.O.G.M. draws out the covenantal weight of a life lived from the inside out.

