Webster - Proverbs - 20

20:1  Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whoever is deceived by it is not wise.

20:2  The fear of a king [is] as the roaring of a lion: [whoever] provoketh him to anger sinneth [against] his own soul.

20:3  [It is] an honor 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 on 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 [is] pure, and whether [it is] 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 thy eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

20:14  [It is] naught, [it is] naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone, 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 tale-bearer revealeth secrets; therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

20:20  Whoever 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 of it 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 to 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 inquiry.

20:26  A wise king scatterreth 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 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 blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so [do] stripes the inward parts of the belly.