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