| |
Revised Standard Version |   | |
 |
| |
| | Pro 20:1 | Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
| |
| | Pro 20:2 | The dread wrath of a king is like the growling of a lion; he who provokes him to anger forfeits his life.
| |
| | Pro 20:3 | It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling.
| |
| | Pro 20:4 | The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.
| |
| | Pro 20:5 | The purpose in a man's mind is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
| |
| | Pro 20:6 | Many a man proclaims his own loyalty, but a faithful man who can find?
| |
| | Pro 20:7 | A righteous man who walks in his integrity--blessed are his sons after him!
| |
| | Pro 20:8 | A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows all evil with his eyes.
| |
| | Pro 20:9 | Who can say, "I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"?
| |
| | Pro 20:10 | Diverse weights and diverse measures are both alike an abomination to the LORD.
| |
| | Pro 20:11 | Even a child makes himself known by his acts, whether what he does is pure and right.
| |
| | Pro 20:12 | The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the LORD has made them both.
| |
| | Pro 20:13 | Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
| |
| | Pro 20:14 | "It is bad, it is bad," says the buyer; but when he goes away, then he boasts.
| |
| | Pro 20:15 | There is gold, and abundance of costly stones; but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
| |
| | Pro 20:16 | Take a man's garment when he has given surety for a stranger, and hold him in pledge when he gives surety for foreigners.
| |
| | Pro 20:17 | Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel.
| |
| | Pro 20:18 | Plans are established by counsel; by wise guidance wage war.
| |
| | Pro 20:19 | He who goes about gossiping reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with one who speaks foolishly.
| |
| | Pro 20:20 | If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.
| |
| | Pro 20:21 | An inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning will in the end not be blessed.
| |
| | Pro 20:22 | Do not say, "I will repay evil"; wait for the LORD, and he will help you.
| |
| | Pro 20:23 | Diverse weights are an abomination to the LORD, and false scales are not good.
| |
| | Pro 20:24 | A man's steps are ordered by the LORD; how then can man understand his way?
| |
| | Pro 20:25 | It is a snare for a man to say rashly, "It is holy," and to reflect only after making his vows.
| |
| | Pro 20:26 | A wise king winnows the wicked, and drives the wheel over them.
| |
| | Pro 20:27 | The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all his innermost parts.
| |
| | Pro 20:28 | Loyalty and faithfulness preserve the king, and his throne is upheld by righteousness.
| |
| | Pro 20:29 | The glory of young men is their strength, but the beauty of old men is their gray hair.
| |
| | Pro 20:30 | Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts.
| |
