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| | Pro 20:1 | Wine is a scorner, strong drink is raging; and whoso erreth thereby is not wise.
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| | Pro 20:2 | The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: he that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
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| | Pro 20:3 | It is an honour for a man to cease from strife; but every fool rusheth into it.
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| | Pro 20:4 | The sluggard will not plough by reason of the winter; he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
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| | Pro 20:5 | Counsel in the heart of man is deep water, and a man of understanding draweth it out.
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| | Pro 20:6 | Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; but a faithful man who shall find?
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| | Pro 20:7 | The righteous walketh in his integrity: blessed are his children after him!
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| | Pro 20:8 | A king sitting on the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
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| | Pro 20:9 | Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
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| | Pro 20:10 | Divers weights, divers measures, even both of them are abomination to Jehovah.
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| | Pro 20:11 | Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
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| | Pro 20:12 | The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them.
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| | Pro 20:13 | Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
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| | Pro 20:14 | Bad! bad! saith the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
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| | Pro 20:15 | There is gold, and a multitude of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a precious Jewel.
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| | Pro 20:16 | Take his garment that is become surety [for] another, and hold him in pledge for strangers.
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| | Pro 20:17 | Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
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| | Pro 20:18 | Plans are established by counsel; and with good advice make war.
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| | Pro 20:19 | He that goeth about talebearing revealeth secrets; therefore meddle not with him that openeth his lips.
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| | Pro 20:20 | Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in the blackest darkness.
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| | Pro 20:21 | An inheritance obtained hastily at the beginning will not be blessed in the end.
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| | Pro 20:22 | Say not, I will recompense evil: wait on Jehovah, and he shall save thee.
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| | Pro 20:23 | Divers weights are an abomination unto Jehovah; and a false balance is not good.
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| | Pro 20:24 | The steps of a man are from Jehovah; and how can a man understand his own way?
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| | Pro 20:25 | It is a snare to a man rashly to say, It is hallowed, and after vows to make inquiry.
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| | Pro 20:26 | A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
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| | Pro 20:27 | Man's spirit is the lamp of Jehovah, searching all the inner parts of the belly.
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| | Pro 20:28 | Mercy and truth preserve the king; and he upholdeth his throne by mercy.
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| | Pro 20:29 | The glory of young men is their strength; and the beauty of old men is the grey head.
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| | Pro 20:30 | Wounding stripes purge away evil, and strokes [purge] the inner parts of the belly.
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