AFV2020 - Proverbs - 20

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.