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20:1  Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whoever is deceived by it is not wise.
20:2  The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.
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 because of the cold; therefore he will beg during 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 who can find a faithful man?
20:7  The just man walks in his integrity; his children are blessed after him.
20:8  A king who sits on 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 alike are an abomination to the Lord.
20:11  Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work is pure and whether it is right.
20:12  The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made both of them.
20:13  Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with bread.
20:14  “It is bad, it is bad,” says the buyer; but when he has 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 the garment of him who is a pledge for a stranger, and hold it as a security when it is for a wayward woman.
20:17  Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth will be filled with gravel.
20:18  Every purpose is established by counsel, and with good advice wage war.
20:19  He who goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets; therefore do not meddle with him who flatters with his lips.
20:20  Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in obscure darkness.
20:21  An inheritance may be gained hastily at the beginning, but the end of it will not be blessed.
20:22  Do not say, “I will recompense evil”; but wait on the Lord, and He will save you.
20:23  Diverse weights are an abomination to the Lord, and a false balance is not good.
20:24  Man’s goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?
20:25  It is a snare to the man who dedicates rashly that which is holy, and after the vows to make inquiry.
20:26  A wise king sifts out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them.
20:27  The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts 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  The blows of a wound cleanse away evil, so do stripes the inward parts of the heart.