PR-20:1  Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and

whosoever is

deceived thereby is not wise.

PR-20:2  The fear of a king [is] as the roaring of a lion:

[whoso] provoketh

him to anger sinneth [against] his own soul.

PR-20:3  [It is] an honour for a man to cease from strife: but

every fool will

be meddling.

PR-20:4  The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold;

[therefore] shall

he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing.

PR-20:5  Counsel in the heart of man [is like] deep water; but a

man of

understanding will draw it out.

PR-20:6  Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but

a faithful man

who can find?

PR-20:7  The just [man] walketh in his integrity: his children

[are] blessed

after him.

PR-20:8  A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment

scattereth away all

evil with his eyes.

PR-20:9  Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from

my sin?

PR-20:10  Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them

[are] alike

abomination to the LORD.

PR-20:11  Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work

[be] pure, and

whether [it be] right.

PR-20:12  The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath

made even both of

them.

PR-20:13  Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine

eyes, [and]

thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

PR-20:14  [It is] naught, [it is] naught, saith the buyer: but

when he is gone

his way, then he boasteth.

PR-20:15  There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips

of knowledge

[are] a precious jewel.

PR-20:16  Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and

take a pledge

of him for a strange woman.

PR-20:17  Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards

his mouth shall

be filled with gravel.

PR-20:18  [Every] purpose is established by counsel: and with

good advice make

war.

PR-20:19  He that goeth about [as] a talebearer revealeth

secrets: therefore

meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

PR-20:20  Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall

be put out in

obscure darkness.

PR-20:21  An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the

beginning; but the end

thereof shall not be blessed.

PR-20:22  Say not thou, I will recompense evil; [but] wait on

the LORD, and he

shall save thee.

PR-20:23  Divers weights [are] an abomination unto the LORD; and

a false

balance [is] not good.

PR-20:24  Man's goings [are] of the LORD; how can a man then

understand his

own way?

PR-20:25  [It is] a snare to the man [who] devoureth [that which

is] holy, and

after vows to make inquiry.

PR-20:26  A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the

wheel over them.

PR-20:27  The spirit of man [is] the candle of the LORD,

searching all the

inward parts of the belly.

PR-20:28  Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is

upholden by

mercy.

PR-20:29  The glory of young men [is] their strength: and the

beauty of old

men [is] the grey head.

PR-20:30  The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so [do]

stripes the

inward parts of the belly.

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