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