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20:1  Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
20:2  The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whosoever provokes him to anger sins against his own life.
20:3  It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
20:4  The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
20:5  Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
20:6  Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
20:7  The just man walks in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
20:8  A king that sits in the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
20:9  Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
20:10  Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
20:11  Even a child is known by his acts, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.
20:12  The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has made even both of them.
20:13  Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
20:14  It is nothing, it is nothing, says the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
20:15  There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
20:16  Take his garment who is surety for a stranger: and hold it as a pledge of him for an immoral woman.
20:17  Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
20:18  Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice wage war.
20:19  He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore associate not with him who flatters with his lips.
20:20  Whosoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in utter darkness.
20:21  An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
20:22  Say not, I will repay evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save you.
20:23  Diverse weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
20:24  A man's steps are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
20:25  It is a snare to the man to declare something is holy, and afterward to reconsider his vows.
20:26  A wise king winnows the wicked, and drives the wheel over them.
20:27  The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all the inner depths of the heart.
20:28  Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upheld by mercy.
20:29  The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
20:30  Blows of a wound cleanse away evil: as do stripes the inner depths of the heart.