| 章 |
| 20:1 |
Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whoever is deceived by it is not wise.
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| 20:2 |
The fear of a king [is] as the roaring of a lion: [whoever] provoketh him to anger sinneth [against] his own soul.
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| 20:3 |
[It is] an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
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| 20:4 |
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; [therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing.
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| 20:5 |
Counsel in the heart of man [is like] deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
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| 20:6 |
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
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| 20:7 |
The just [man] walketh in his integrity: his children [are] blessed after him.
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| 20:8 |
A king that sitteth on the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
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| 20:9 |
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
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| 20:10 |
Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike abomination to the LORD.
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| 20:11 |
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work [is] pure, and whether [it is] right.
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| 20:12 |
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
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| 20:13 |
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thy eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
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| 20:14 |
[It is] naught, [it is] naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone, then he boasteth.
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| 20:15 |
There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge [are] a precious jewel.
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| 20:16 |
Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
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| 20:17 |
Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
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| 20:18 |
[Every] purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
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| 20:19 |
He that goeth about [as] a tale-bearer revealeth secrets; therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
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| 20:20 |
Whoever curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
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| 20:21 |
An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end of it shall not be blessed.
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| 20:22 |
Say not thou, I will recompense evil; [but] wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
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| 20:23 |
Divers weights [are] an abomination to the LORD; and a false balance [is] not good.
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| 20:24 |
Man's goings [are] of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
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| 20:25 |
[It is] a snare to the man [who] devoureth [that which is] holy, and after vows to make inquiry.
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| 20:26 |
A wise king scatterreth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
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| 20:27 |
The spirit of man [is] the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
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| 20:28 |
Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upheld by mercy.
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| 20:29 |
The glory of young men [is] their strength: and the beauty of old men [is] the gray head.
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| 20:30 |
The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so [do] stripes the inward parts of the belly.
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