Proverbs 20
20
1Drinking too much makes you loud and foolish. It's stupid to get drunk.
2Fear an angry king as you would a growling lion; making him angry is suicide.
3Any fool can start arguments; the honourable thing is to stay out of them.
4A farmer who is too lazy to plough his fields at the right time will have nothing to harvest.
5A person's thoughts are like water in a deep well, but someone with insight can draw them out.
6Everyone talks about how loyal and faithful he is, but just try to find someone who really is!
7Children are fortunate if they have a father who is honest and does what is right.
8The king sits in judgement and knows evil when he sees it.
9Can anyone really say that his conscience is clear, that he has got rid of his sin?
10The LORD hates people who use dishonest weights and measures.
11Even children show what they are by what they do; you can tell if they are honest and good.
12The LORD has given us eyes to see with and ears to listen with.
13If you spend your time sleeping, you will be poor. Keep busy and you will have plenty to eat.
14The customer always complains that the price is too high, but then he goes off and brags about the bargain he got.
15If you know what you are talking about, you have something more valuable than gold or jewels.
16Anyone stupid enough to promise to be responsible for a stranger's debts ought to have his own property held to guarantee payment.
17What you get by dishonesty you may enjoy like the finest food, but sooner or later it will be like a mouthful of sand.
18Get good advice and you will succeed; don't go charging into battle without a plan.
19A gossip can never keep a secret. Stay away from people who talk too much.
20If you curse your parents, your life will end like a lamp that goes out in the dark.
21The more easily you get your wealth, the less good it will do you.
22Don't take it on yourself to repay a wrong. Trust the LORD and he will make it right.
23The LORD hates people who use dishonest scales and weights.
24The LORD has determined our path; how then can anyone understand the direction his own life is taking?
25Think carefully before you promise an offering to God. You might regret it later.
26A wise king will find out who is doing wrong, and will punish him without pity.
27The LORD gave us mind and conscience; we cannot hide from ourselves.
28A king will remain in power as long as his rule is honest, just, and fair.
29We admire the strength of youth and respect the grey hair of age.
30Sometimes it takes a painful experience to make us change our ways.
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Good News Bible with Deuterocanonicals/Apocrypha. Scripture taken from the Good News Bible (r) (Today's English Version Second Edition, UK/British Edition). Copyright © 1992 British & Foreign Bible Society. Used by permission.
Proverbs 20
20
1 It is a luxurious thing, wine, and inebriation is tumultuous. Anyone who is delighted by this will not be wise.
2 Just like the roaring of a lion, so also is the dread of a king. Whoever provokes him sins in his own soul.
3 Honor is for the man who separates himself from contentions. But all the foolish meddle in altercations.
4 Because of the cold, the lazy one was not willing to plough. Therefore, in the summer, he will beg, and it will not be given to him.
5 Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep waters. But a wise man will draw it out.
6 Many men are called merciful. But who will find a faithful man?
7 The just who walks in his simplicity shall leave behind him blessed sons.
8 The king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters all evil with his gaze.
9 Who is able to say: "My heart is clean. I am pure from sin?"
10 Diverse weights, diverse measures: both are abominable with God.
11 A child may be understood by his interests: whether his works may be clean and upright.
12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye: the Lord has made them both.
13 Do not love sleep, lest deprivation oppress you. Open your eyes and be satisfied with bread.
14 "It is bad, it is bad," says every buyer; and when he has withdrawn, then he will boast.
15 There is gold, and there are a multitude of jewels. But lips of knowledge are a precious vessel.
16 Take away the vestments of him who stands up to vouch for a stranger, and take a pledge from him instead of from outsiders.
17 The bread of lies is sweet to a man. But afterwards, his mouth will be filled with pebbles.
18 Plans are strengthened by counsels. And wars are to be handled by governments.
19 Do not become involved with him who reveals mysteries, and who walks deceitfully, and who enlarges his lips.
20 Whoever curses his father and mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the midst of darkness.
21 When an inheritance is obtained hastily in the beginning, in the end it will be without a blessing.
22 Do not say, "I will repay evil." Wait for the Lord, and he will free you.
23 Diverse weights are an abomination with the Lord. A deceitful balance is not good.
24 The steps of men are directed by the Lord. But who is the man able to understand his own way?
25 It is ruin for a man to devour what is holy, or, after making vows, to retract them.
26 A wise king scatters the impious and bends an archway over them.
27 The spirit of a man is a lamp to the Lord, which investigates all the secrets of the inner self.
28 Mercy and truth guard the king, and his throne is strengthened by clemency.
29 The joy of youths is their strength. And the dignity of old men is their grey hairs.
30 The bruise of a wound, as well as scourges, shall wipe away evils in the more secret places of the inner self.
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