Proverbs 20

¹Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.SelectedProverbs 20:1CopyShareAsk

²The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.SelectedProverbs 20:2CopyShareAsk

³It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.SelectedProverbs 20:3CopyShareAsk

⁴The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.SelectedProverbs 20:4CopyShareAsk

⁵Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.SelectedProverbs 20:5CopyShareAsk

⁶Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?SelectedProverbs 20:6CopyShareAsk

⁷The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.SelectedProverbs 20:7CopyShareAsk

⁸A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.SelectedProverbs 20:8CopyShareAsk

⁹Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?SelectedProverbs 20:9CopyShareAsk

¹⁰Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.SelectedProverbs 20:10CopyShareAsk

¹¹Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.SelectedProverbs 20:11CopyShareAsk

¹²The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.SelectedProverbs 20:12CopyShareAsk

¹³Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.SelectedProverbs 20:13CopyShareAsk

¹⁴It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.SelectedProverbs 20:14CopyShareAsk

¹⁵There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.SelectedProverbs 20:15CopyShareAsk

¹⁶Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.SelectedProverbs 20:16CopyShareAsk

¹⁷Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.SelectedProverbs 20:17CopyShareAsk

¹⁸Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.SelectedProverbs 20:18CopyShareAsk

¹⁹He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.SelectedProverbs 20:19CopyShareAsk

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

²¹An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.SelectedProverbs 20:21CopyShareAsk

²²Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.SelectedProverbs 20:22CopyShareAsk

²³Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.SelectedProverbs 20:23CopyShareAsk

²⁴Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?SelectedProverbs 20:24CopyShareAsk

²⁵It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.SelectedProverbs 20:25CopyShareAsk

²⁶A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.SelectedProverbs 20:26CopyShareAsk

²⁷The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.SelectedProverbs 20:27CopyShareAsk

²⁸Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.SelectedProverbs 20:28CopyShareAsk

²⁹The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head.SelectedProverbs 20:29CopyShareAsk

³⁰The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.SelectedProverbs 20:30CopyShareAsk