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. |