Proverbs 20

King James Version

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

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