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Proverbs 20
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1Wine is an intemperate thing, and strong drink full of violence: but every fool is entangled with them.
1Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
2The threat of a king differs not from the rage of a lion; and he that provokes him sins against his own soul.
2The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
3[It is] a glory to a man to turn aside from railing; but every fool is entangled with such matters.
3It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
4A sluggard when reproached is not ashamed: so also he who borrows corn in harvest.
4The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
5Counsel in a man's heart is deep water; but a prudent man will draw it out.
5Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
6A man is valuable, and a merciful man precious: but [it is] hard to find a faithful man.
6Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
7He that walks blameless in justice, shall leave his children blessed .
7The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
8Whenever a righteous king sits on the throne, no evil thing can stand before his presence.
8A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
9Who will boast that he has a pure heart? or who will boldly say that he is pure from sins?
9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
10A large and small weight, and various measures, are even both of them unclean before the Lord; and [so is] he that makes them.
10Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.
11A youth [when in company] with a godly man, will be restrained in his devices, and [then] his way will be straight.
11Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
12The ear hears, and the eye sees: even both of them are the Lord's work.
12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.
13Love not to speak ill, lest you be cut off: open your eyes, and be filled with bread.
13Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
20The lamp of him that reviles father or mothershall be put out, and his eyeballs shall see darkness.
20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
21A portion hastily gotten at first shall not be blessed in the end.
21An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
22Say not , I will avenge myself on my enemy; but wait on the Lord, that he may help you.
22Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.
23A double weight is an abomination to the Lord; and a deceitful balance is not good in his sight.
23Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good.
24A man's goings are directed of the Lord: how then can a mortal understand his ways?
24Man’s goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?
25It is a snare to a man hastily to consecrate some of his own property: for [in that case] repentance comes after vowing.
25It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
26A wise king utterly crushes the ungodly, and will bring a wheel upon them.
26A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
27The spirit of man is a light of the Lord, who searches the inmost parts of the belly.
27The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
28Mercy and truth are a guard to a king, and will surround his throne with righteousness.
28Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.
29Wisdom is an ornament to young men; and grey [hairs] are the glory of old men .
29The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
30Bruises and contusions befall bad men; and plagues [shall come] in the inward parts of [their] belly.
30The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.