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