<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1017049">Proverbs</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1017623">Chapter 20</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1017593">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1017654">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>Proverbs of Solomon</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017624">1</a>. WINE is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017625">2</a>. The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017626">3</a>. It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017627">4</a>. The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017628">5</a>. Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017629">6</a>. Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017630">7</a>. The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017631">8</a>. A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017632">9</a>. Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017633">10</a>. Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017634">11</a>. Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017635">12</a>. The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017636">13</a>. Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017637">14</a>. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017638">15</a>. There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017639">16</a>. Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017640">17</a>. Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017641">18</a>. Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017642">19</a>. He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017643">20</a>. Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017644">21</a>. An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017645">22</a>. Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017646">23</a>. Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017647">24</a>. Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017648">25</a>. It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make inquiry.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017649">26</a>. A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017650">27</a>. The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017651">28</a>. Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017652">29</a>. The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1017653">30</a>. The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.</li>
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