• Proverbs 20:1

    Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

  • Proverbs 20:2

    The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

  • Proverbs 20:3

    It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

  • Proverbs 20:4

    The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold;a therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

  • Proverbs 20:5

    Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

  • Proverbs 20:6

    Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness:b but a faithful man who can find?

  • Proverbs 20:7

    The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

  • Proverbs 20:8

    A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.

  • Proverbs 20:9

    Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

  • Proverbs 20:10

    Divers weights,c and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

  • Proverbs 20:11

    Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

  • Proverbs 20:12

    The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.

  • Proverbs 20:13

    Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

  • Proverbs 20:14

    It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

  • Proverbs 20:15

    There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

  • Proverbs 20:16

    Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

  • Proverbs 20:17

    Bread of deceitd is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

  • Proverbs 20:18

    Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

  • Proverbs 20:19

    He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flatterethe with his lips.

  • Proverbs 20:20

    Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lampf shall be put out in obscure darkness.

  • Proverbs 20:21

    An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

  • Proverbs 20:22

    Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.

  • Proverbs 20:23

    Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a falseg balance is not good.

  • Proverbs 20:24

    Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

  • Proverbs 20:25

    It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.

  • Proverbs 20:26

    A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.

  • Proverbs 20:27

    The spirit of man is the candleh of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

  • Proverbs 20:28

    Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.

  • Proverbs 20:29

    The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.

  • Proverbs 20:30

    The blueness of a wound cleansethi away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.

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