Proverbs - Chapter 20 - King James 2000
- Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
- The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whosoever provokes him to anger sins against his own life.
- It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
- The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
- Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
- Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
- The just man walks in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
- A king that sits in 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 are alike abomination to the LORD.
- Even a child is known by his acts, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.
- The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has made even both of them.
- Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
- It is nothing, it is nothing, says the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
- There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
- Take his garment who is surety for a stranger: and hold it as a pledge of him for an immoral woman.
- Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
- Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice wage war.
- He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore associate not with him who flatters with his lips.
- Whosoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in utter darkness.
- An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
- Say not, I will repay evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save you.
- Diverse weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
- A man’s steps are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
- It is a snare to the man to declare something is holy, and afterward to reconsider his vows.
- A wise king winnows the wicked, and drives the wheel over them.
- The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all the inner depths of the heart.
- Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upheld by mercy.
- The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
- Blows of a wound cleanse away evil: as do stripes the inner depths of the heart.