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Proverbs 20
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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