ACV - Proverbs - 20

20:1  Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever errs thereby is not wise.

20:2  The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger sins against his own life.

20:3  It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarrelling.

20:4  The sluggard will not plow because of the winter. Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

20:5  Purpose in the heart of man is 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  A righteous man who 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  Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah.

20:11  Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

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

20:13  Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Open thine eyes, and thou shall be satisfied with bread.

20:14  It is bad, it is bad, says the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

20:15  There is gold, and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

20:16  Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge for foreigners.

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

20:18  Every purpose is established by counsel, and by wise guidance make thou war.

20:19  He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets. Therefore do not associate with him who opens wide his lips.

20:20  He who curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

20:21  An inheritance gotten hastily at the beginning shall not be blessed in the end.

20:22  Say thou not, I will recompense evil. Wait for Jehovah, and he will save thee.

20:23  Diverse weights are an abomination to Jehovah, and a false balance is not good.

20:24  A man's goings are of Jehovah, how then can man understand his way?

20:25  It is a snare to a man to say rashly, It is holy. And to make inquiry after vows.

20:26  A wise king winnows the wicked, and brings the wheel over them.

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

20:28  Kindness and truth preserve the king, and his throne is upheld by kindness.

20:29  The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is the hoary head.

20:30  Stripes that wound cleanse away evil, and strokes, the innermost parts.