Proverbs 20 (TRV)

From Textus Receptus

1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whoever is deceived by it is not wise.

2 The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion: whoever provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.

3 It is an honour for a man to stop striving: but every fool will be interfering.

4 The sluggard will not plow because of the cold; therefore he will beg in harvest time, and have nothing.

5 Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.

6 Most men will proclaim each his own goodness, but who can find a faithful man?

7 The just man walks in his integrity; his children are blessed after him.

8 A king that sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.

9 Who can say, “I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin”?

10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them in the same way are abomination to the Lord.

11 Even a child is known by his actions, 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 your eyes, and you will be satisfied with bread.

14 “It is worthless, it is worthless,” says the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

15 There is gold, and a multitude of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

16 Take the garment of him who is a guarantor for a foreigner, and take a pledge of him for a foreign woman.

17 Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

18 Every purpose is established by counsel, so wage war with good advice.

19 He who goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets; therefore do not interfere with him who flattereth with his lips.

20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

21 An inheritance may be gained hurriedly at the beginning; but the end of it not be blessed.