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PROVERBS ยท Chapter 20
20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived
thereby is not wise.
20:2 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provokes
him to anger sins against his own soul.
20:3 It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool
will be meddling.
20:4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall
he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
20:5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding
will draw it out.
20:6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful
man who can find?
20:7 The just man walks in his integrity: his children are blessed
after him.
20:8 A king that sits in the throne of judgment scatters away all evil
with his eyes.
20:9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
20:10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination
to the LORD.
20:11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure,
and whether it be right.
20:12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has made even both
of them.
20:13 Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and
you shall be satisfied with bread.
20:14 It is nil, it is nil, says the buyer: but when he is gone his
way, then he boasts.
20:15 There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge
are a precious jewel.
20:16 Take his garment that is guarantor for a stranger: and take a
pledge of him for a strange woman.
20:17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall
be filled with gravel.
20:18 Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice
make war.
20:19 He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore
meddle not with him that flatters with his lips.
20:20 Whoso curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put
out in obscure darkness.
20:21 An inheritance may be got hastily at the beginning; but the end
thereof shall not be blessed.
20:22 Say not you, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and
he shall save you.
20:23 Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false
balance is not good.
20:24 Man's activities are of the LORD; how can a man then understand
his own way?
20:25 It is a snare to the man who devours that which is holy, and
after vows to make enquiry.
20:26 A wise king scatters the wicked, and brings the wheel over them.
20:27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the
inward parts of the belly.
20:28 Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne supported by
mercy.
20:29 The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old
men is the grey head.
20:30 The blueness of a wound cleanses away evil: so do stripes the
inward parts of the belly.
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