Proverbs 20
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1Wine ⌞makes people⌟ mock,
liquor ⌞makes them⌟ noisy,
and everyone under their influence is unwise.
2The rage of a king is like the roar of a lion.
Whoever makes him angry forfeits his life.
3Avoiding a quarrel is honorable.
After all, any stubborn fool can start a fight.
4A lazy person does not plow in the fall.#20:4 Fall was the start of the planting season in Palestine.
He looks for something in the harvest but finds nothing.
5A motive in the human heart is like deep water,
and a person who has understanding draws it out.
6Many people declare themselves loyal,
but who can find someone who is ⌞really⌟ trustworthy?
7A righteous person lives on the basis of his integrity.
Blessed are his children after he is gone.
8A king who sits on his throne to judge sifts out every evil with his eyes.
9Who can say,
“I’ve made my heart pure.
I’m cleansed from my sin”?
10A double standard of weights and measures—
both are disgusting to the Lord.
11Even a child makes himself known by his actions,
whether his deeds are pure or right.
12The ear that hears,
the eye that sees—
the Lord made them both.
13Do not love sleep or you will end up poor.
Keep your eyes open, and you will have plenty to eat.
14“Bad! Bad!” says the buyer.
Then, as he goes away, he brags ⌞about his bargain⌟.
15There are gold and plenty of jewels,
but the lips of knowledge are precious gems.
16Hold on to the garment of one who guarantees a stranger’s loan,
and hold responsible the person who makes a loan on behalf of a foreigner.
17Food gained dishonestly tastes sweet to a person,
but afterwards his mouth will be filled with gravel.
18Plans are confirmed by getting advice,
and with guidance one wages war.
19Whoever goes around as a gossip tells secrets.
Do not associate with a person whose mouth is always open.
20The lamp of the person who curses his father and mother
will be snuffed out in total darkness.#20:20 Or “snuffed out as darkness approaches.”
21An inheritance quickly obtained in the beginning
will never be blessed in the end.
22Do not say, “I’ll get even with you!”
Wait for the Lord, and he will save you.
23A double standard of weights is disgusting to the Lord,
and dishonest scales are no good.
24The Lord is the one who directs a person’s steps.
How then can anyone understand his own way?
25It is a trap for a person to say impulsively, “This is a holy offering!”
and later to have second thoughts about those vows.
26A wise king scatters the wicked
and then runs them over.
27A person’s soul is the Lord’s lamp.
It searches his entire innermost being.
28Mercy and truth protect a king,
and with mercy he maintains his throne.
29While the glory of young men is their strength,
the splendor of older people is their silver hair.
30Brutal beatings cleanse away wickedness.
Such beatings cleanse the innermost being.
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Proverbs 20
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Proverbs 20
1¶ Wine makes a mocker, and beer a reveler, and whoever errs concerning them shall never be wise.
2¶ The fear of the king is as the roaring of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.
3¶ It is 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; therefore he shall beg in harvest and have nothing.
5¶ Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of intelligence will draw it out.
6¶ Most men will proclaim each one his own mercy, but who can find a man of truth?
7¶ The just man who walks in his integrity, blessed shall be his sons after him.
8¶ A king that sits in the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
9¶ Who shall be able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
10¶ Double weights and double measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.
11¶ Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work is pure and whether it is right.
12¶ The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made both of them.
13¶ Do not love sleep lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
14¶ It is bad, it is bad, the buyer says; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
15¶ There is gold and a multitude of precious stones, but the lips of wisdom are a precious vessel.
16¶ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him that is surety for a strange woman.
17¶ Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
18¶ Every thought must be ordered by counsel, and with intelligence war is made.
19¶ He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets; therefore meddle not with him that flatters with his lips.
20¶ Whosoever curses his father or his mother, his fire shall be put out in obscure darkness.
21¶ An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning, but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
22¶ Say not thou, I will take vengeance, but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.
23¶ Double weights are an abomination unto the Lord, and a false balance is not good.
24¶ Man’s steps are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?
25¶ It is a snare unto man to devour that which is holy and afterward to reconsider his vows.
26¶ A wise king scatters the wicked and brings the wheel over them.
27¶ The spirit of man is the fire of the Lord, which searches the secrets of the inward parts.
28¶ Mercy and truth preserve the king, and his throne is upheld by mercy.
29¶ The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
30¶ The scars of past wounds are medicine for evil, and living reproof reaches the most secret places in the inward parts.
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