20Proverbs 20

1Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.Select Proverbs 20:1

2The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.Select Proverbs 20:2

3It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.Select Proverbs 20:3

4The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.Select Proverbs 20:4

5Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.Select Proverbs 20:5

6Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?Select Proverbs 20:6

7The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.Select Proverbs 20:7

8A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.Select Proverbs 20:8

9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?Select Proverbs 20:9

10Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.Select Proverbs 20:10

11Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.Select Proverbs 20:11

12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.Select Proverbs 20:12

13Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.Select Proverbs 20:13

14It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.Select Proverbs 20:14

15There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.Select Proverbs 20:15

16Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.Select Proverbs 20:16

17Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.Select Proverbs 20:17

18Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.Select Proverbs 20:18

19He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.Select Proverbs 20:19

20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.Select Proverbs 20:20

21An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.Select Proverbs 20:21

22Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.Select Proverbs 20:22

23Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good.Select Proverbs 20:23

24Man’s goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?Select Proverbs 20:24

25It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.Select Proverbs 20:25

26A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.Select Proverbs 20:26

27The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.Select Proverbs 20:27

28Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.Select Proverbs 20:28

29The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.Select Proverbs 20:29

30The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.Select Proverbs 20:30