Proverbs 20

¹Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler;

²The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion:

³It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife;

⁴The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter;

⁵Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water;

⁶Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness;

⁷A righteous man that walketh in his integrity,

⁸A king that sitteth on the throne of judgment

⁹Who can say, I have made my heart clean,

¹⁰Diverse weights, and diverse measures,

¹¹Even a child maketh himself known by his doings,

¹²The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,

¹³Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty;

¹⁴It is bad, it is bad, saith the buyer;

¹⁵There is gold, and abundance of rubies;

¹⁶Take his garment that is surety for a stranger;

¹⁷Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man;

¹⁸Every purpose is established by counsel;

¹⁹He that goeth about as a tale-bearer revealeth secrets;

²⁰Whoso curseth his father or his mother,

²¹An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning;

²²Say not thou, I will recompense evil:

²³Diverse weights are an abomination to Jehovah;

²⁴A man’s goings are of Jehovah;

²⁵It is a snare to a man rashly to say, It is holy,

²⁶A wise king winnoweth the wicked,

²⁷The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah,

²⁸Kindness and truth preserve the king;

²⁹The glory of young men is their strength;

³⁰Stripes that wound cleanse away evil;