20:1 Wine is a mocker; strong drink is raging, and whoever is deceived by it is not wise. |
20:2 The dreaded wrath 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 rail on. |
20:4 The lazy one will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore he shall beg in harvest and have nothing. |
20:5 A plan in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out. |
20:6 Most men will proclaim each his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find? |
20:7 A righteous man who walks in his integrity, his children are blessed after him. |
20:8 A king who 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 Different kinds of weights and different kinds of measures, both are an abomination to the LORD. |
20:11 Even a child is known by his own doings, whether his work is pure and whether it is right. |
20:12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the LORD has made both of them. |
20:13 Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes and you shall be satisfied with bread. |
20:14 "It is bad! It is bad!" says the buyer; but when he has 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 the garment of him who is guaranty for a stranger, and take a pledge from 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 A talebearer goes about revealing secrets; therefore do not mix with him who flatters with his lips. |
20:20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness. |
20:21 An inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, even the end of it shall not be blessed. |
20:22 Do not say, "I will repay evil;" wait on the LORD, and He will save you. |
20:23 Different kinds of weights are an abomination to the LORD, and a false scale is not good. |
20:24 Man's steps are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way? |
20:25 It is a snare to a man to say rashly, "It is a holy thing," and after making his vow to reconsider it. |
20:26 A wise king scatters the wicked and rolls a threshing wheel over them. |
20:27 The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly. |
20:28 Love 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 gray head. |
20:30 The stripes that wound purge away evil, and yea, strokes cleanse the innermost parts of one's being. |