Proverbs 20

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