Proverbs - Chapter 20 | King James Version (KJV)

  • 1. Wine {cf15I is} a mocker, strong drink {cf15I is} raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
  • 2. The fear of a king {cf15I is} as the roaring of a lion: {cf15I whoso} provoketh him to anger sinneth {cf15I against} his own soul.
  • 3. {cf15I It is} an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
  • 4. The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; {cf15I therefore} shall he beg in harvest, and {cf15I have} nothing.
  • 5. Counsel in the heart of man {cf15I is like} deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
  • 6. Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
  • 7. The just {cf15I man} walketh in his integrity: his children {cf15I are} blessed after him.
  • 8. A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
  • 9. Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
  • 10. Divers weights, {cf15I and} divers measures, both of them {cf15I are} alike abomination to the LORD.
  • 11. Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work {cf15I be} pure, and whether {cf15I it be} right.
  • 12. The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
  • 13. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, {cf15I and} thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
  • 14. {cf15I It is} naught, {cf15I it is} naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
  • 15. There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge {cf15I are} a precious jewel.
  • 16. Take his garment that is surety {cf15I for} a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
  • 17. Bread of deceit {cf15I is} sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
  • 18. {cf15I Every} purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
  • 19. He that goeth about {cf15I as} a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
  • 20. Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
  • 21. An inheritance {cf15I may be} gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
  • 22. Say not thou, I will recompense evil; {cf15I but} wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
  • 23. Divers weights {cf15I are} an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance {cf15I is} not good.
  • 24. Man's goings {cf15I are} of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
  • 25. {cf15I It is} a snare to the man {cf15I who} devoureth {cf15I that which is} holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
  • 26. A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
  • 27. The spirit of man {cf15I is} the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
  • 28. Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.
  • 29. The glory of young men {cf15I is} their strength: and the beauty of old men {cf15I is} the gray head.
  • 30. The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so {cf15I do} stripes the inward parts of the belly.
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