Proverbs20

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