LITV - Proverbs - 20

20:1  Wine is a mocker, strong drink is stirring, and each one straying by it is not wise.

20:2  The fear of a king is as the roar of a lion, he who stirs him up to anger wrongs his own soul.

20:3  For a man to cease from strife is an honor, but every fool exposes himself.

20:4  The lazy man will not plow, after autumn he begs at harvest, and nothing is there.

20:5  Counsel in a man's heart is like deep water, but an understanding man will draw it out.

20:6  Most men will proclaim each his own kindness, but who can find a faithful man?

20:7  The just one walks in his integrity, blessed are his sons after him!

20:8  A king who sits on 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  A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, both are hateful to Jehovah.

20:11  Even a child is known by his acts, whether his work is pure, or upright.

20:12  The hearing ear and the seeing eye, Jehovah has even made both of them.

20:13  Do not love sleep, lest you become poor; open your eyes, be satisfied with bread.

20:14  Bad! Bad! says the buyer, but when it is left to him, then he boasts.

20:15  There is gold and a multitude of gems, but the lips of knowledge are a rare vessel.

20:16  Take the garment of the one who is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from one who guarantees for strangers.

20:17  Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

20:18  Purposes are established in counsel, and make war with wise guidance.

20:19  A revealer of secrets walks about as a gossip, so do not meddle with him who opens his lips wide.

20:20  Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.

20:21  An inheritance may be gotten quickly in the beginning, but the end of it shall not be blessed.

20:22  Do not say, I will repay evil; wait on Jehovah, and He will save you.

20:23  A stone and a stone are hateful to Jehovah; and a false balance is not good.

20:24  The steps of a man are from Jehovah, and what can man discern of his way?

20:25  It is a snare to a man to say rashly, A holy thing, and after the vows to inquire about it .

20:26  A wise king scatters the wicked and turns the wheel over them.

20:27  The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah, searching all the inward parts of the heart.

20:28  Mercy and truth preserve the king, and his throne is upheld by mercy.

20:29  The glory of young men is their vigor, and the honor of old men is the gray head.

20:30  The stripes of a wound cleanse away evil, and strokes the inward parts of the heart.