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20:1  Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; and whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.
20:2  The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: he that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own life.
20:3  It is an honour for a man to keep aloof from strife: but every fool will be quarrelling.
20:4  The slothful will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall 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 wilt proclaim every one his own kindness: but a faithful man who can find?
20:7  A just man that walketh in his integrity, blessed are his children after him.
20:8  A king that sitteth on the throne of judgment scattereth 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  Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.
20:11  Even a child maketh himself known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
20:12  The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
20:13  Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
20:14  It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
20:15  There is gold, and abundance of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
20:16  Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; and hold him in pledge that is surety for strangers.
20:17  Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
20:18  Every purpose is established by counsel: and by wise guidance make thou war,
20:19  He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that openeth wide his lips.
20:20  Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in the blackest darkness.
20:21  An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
20:22  Say not thou, I will recompense evil: wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
20:23  Divers weights are an abomination to the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
20:24  A man's goings are of the LORD; how then can man understand his way?
20:25  It is a snare to a man rashly to say, It is holy, and after vows to make inquiry.
20:26  A wise king winnoweth the wicked, and bringeth the threshing wheel over them.
20:27  The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all the innermost parts of the belly.
20:28  Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.
20:29  The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the hoary head.
20:30  Stripes that wound cleanse away evil: and strokes reach the innermost parts of the belly.