Proverbs - Chapter 20 - A Conservative Version
- Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever errs thereby is not wise.
- The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger sins [against] his own life.
- It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarrelling.
- The sluggard will not plow because of the winter. Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
- Purpose in the heart of man is deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
- Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find?
- A righteous man who walks in his integrity, blessed are his sons after him.
- A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
- Who can say, I have made my heart clean. I am pure from my sin?
- Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them alike are an abomination to LORD.
- Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
- The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, LORD has made even both of them.
- Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Open thine eyes, [and] thou shall be satisfied with bread.
- It is bad, it is bad, says the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
- There is gold, and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
- Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge for foreigners.
- Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
- Every purpose is established by counsel, and by wise guidance make thou war.
- He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets. Therefore do not associate with him who opens wide his lips.
- He who curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
- An inheritance gotten hastily at the beginning shall not be blessed in the end.
- Say thou not, I will recompense evil. Wait for LORD, and he will save thee.
- Diverse weights are an abomination to LORD, and a FALSE balance is not good.
- A man's goings are of LORD, how then can man understand his way?
- It is a snare to a man to say rashly, [It is] holy. And to make inquiry after vows.
- A wise king winnows the wicked, and brings the wheel over them.
- The spirit of man is the lamp of LORD, searching all his innermost parts.
- Kindness and truth preserve the king, and his throne is upheld by kindness.
- The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is the hoary head.
- Stripes that wound cleanse away evil, and strokes, the innermost parts.