Jubilee2000 - Proverbs - 20

20:1  Wine [makes] a mocker, and beer a reveler, and whoever errs concerning them shall never be wise.

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

20:3  [It is] an honour 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] he shall beg in harvest and [have] nothing.

20:5  Counsel in the heart of man [is like] deep water, but a man of intelligence will draw it out.

20:6  Most men will proclaim each one his own mercy, but who can find a man of truth?

20:7  The just [man] who walks in his integrity, blessed [shall be] his sons after him.

20:8  A king that sits in the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.

20:9  Who shall be able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

20:10  Double weights [and] double 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 has made both of them.

20:13  Do not love sleep lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

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

20:15  There is gold and a multitude of precious stones, but the lips of wisdom [are] a precious vessel.

20:16  Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger, and take a pledge of him that is surety 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] thought must be ordered by counsel, and with intelligence war is made.

20:19  He that goes about [as] a talebearer reveals secrets; therefore meddle not with him that flatters with his lips.

20:20  Whosoever curses his father or his mother, his fire shall be put out in obscure darkness.

20:21  An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the beginning, but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

20:22  Say not thou, I will take vengeance, [but] wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.

20:23  Double weights [are] an abomination unto the LORD, and a false balance [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 unto man [to] devour [that which is] holy and afterward to reconsider his vows.

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

20:27  The spirit of man [is] the fire of the LORD, which searches the secrets of the inward parts.

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 scars of [past] wounds [are] medicine for evil, and living reproof reaches the most secret [places] in the inward parts.: