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