Proverbs 20

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1} Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whoever goes astray by it is not wise.

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2} The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion; whoever stirs him up to anger sins against his own soul.

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3} It is an honor for a man to cease from strife, but every fool exposes himself.

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4} The lazy one will not plow; after the autumn he shall beg in harvest and have nothing.

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5} Wisdom in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.

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6} Most men will proclaim each his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find?

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7} The just walks in his integrity; his sons are blessed after him.

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8} A king who sits in the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.

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9} Who can say, I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin?

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10} Different kinds of weights, different kinds of measures, both are hateful to Jehovah.

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11} Even a child is known by his own doings, whether his work is pure and whether it is right.

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12} The hearing ear and the seeing eye, Jehovah has made both of them.

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13} Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes and you shall be satisfied with bread.

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14} It is bad! Bad, says the buyer; but when it is left to him, then he boasts.

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15} There is gold and a multitude of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

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16} Take the garment of him who is surety for a stranger; and take a pledge from him for strangers.

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17} Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

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18} Purposes are established by counsel; and with good advice make war.

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19} A gossip is a revealer of secrets; so do not mix with him who flatters with his lips.

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20} Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.

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21} An inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, even the end of it shall not be blessed.

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22} Do not say, I will repay evil; wait on Jehovah, and He will save you.

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23} Different kinds of weights are hateful to Jehovah, and a false balance is not good.

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24} Man's steps are of Jehovah; how can a man then understand his own way?

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25} It is a snare to a man to say rashly, A holy thing, and afterward vows to ask about it.

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26} A wise king scatters the wicked and brings the wheel over them.

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27} The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

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28} Mercy and truth preserve the king; and his throne is upheld by mercy.

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29} The glory of young men is their strength; and the beauty of old men is the gray head.

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30} The stripes of a wound cleanses away evil, and strokes the inward parts of the belly.