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- 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 provoketh him to anger sinneth 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 walketh in his integrity:
his children are blessed after him.
- 20:8
- A king that sitteth in the throne of
judgment scattereth 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 hath made even both of them.
- 20:13
- Love not sleep, lest thou come to
poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
- 20:14
- It is naught, it is naught, saith the
buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
- 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 surety 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 goeth about as a talebearer
revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth
with his lips.
- 20:20
- Whoso curseth his father or his mother,
his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
- 20:21
- An inheritance may be gotten hastily at
the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
- 20:22
- Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but
wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
- 20:23
- Divers weights are an abomination unto
the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
- 20:24
- Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a
man then understand his own way?
- 20:25
- It is a snare to the man who devoureth
that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
- 20:26
- A wise king scattereth the wicked, and
bringeth 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 is upholden 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 cleanseth away
evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.
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