Proverbs Chapter 20

20 : 1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

20 : 2 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoever provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.

20 : 3 It is an honor 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 walks in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

20 : 8 A king that sits in the throne of judgment scatters 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 has made even both of them.

20 : 13 Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

20 : 14 It is naught, it is naught, said the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

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 goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flatters with his lips.

20 : 20 Whoever curses 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 you, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save you.

20 : 23 Divers weights are an abomination to 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 devours that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.

20 : 26 A wise king scatters the wicked, and brings 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 upheld 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 cleans away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.