Proverbs 20

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler;

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

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

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter;

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water;

Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness;

A righteous man that walketh in his integrity,

A king that sitteth on the throne of judgment

Who can say, I have made my heart clean,

Diverse weights, and diverse measures,

Even a child maketh himself known by his doings,

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty;

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

There is gold, and abundance of rubies;

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger;

Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man;

Every purpose is established by counsel;

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

Whoso curseth his father or his mother,

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning;

Say not thou, I will recompense evil:

Diverse weights are an abomination to Jehovah;

A man’s goings are of Jehovah;

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

A wise king winnoweth the wicked,

The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah,

Kindness and truth preserve the king;

The glory of young men is their strength;

Stripes that wound cleanse away evil;