Proverb 20

Pro 20:1 Wine is a mocker, fermented drink is stirring, and each one straying by it is not wise.
Pro 20:2 The fear of a king is as the roar of a lion, he who stirs him up to anger wrongs his own soul.
Pro 20:3 For a man to cease from strife is an honor, but every fool exposes himself.
Pro 20:4 The lazy man will not plow, after autumn he begs at harvest, and nothing is there.
Pro 20:5 Counsel in a man’s heart is like deep water, and a man of understanding will draw it out.
Pro 20:6 Most men will proclaim each his own kindness, but who can find a faithful man?
Pro 20:7 The just one walks in his integrity, blessed are his sons after him!
Pro 20:8 A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
Pro 20:9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Pro 20:10 A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, both are hateful to Jehovah.
Pro 20:11 Even a child is known by his acts, whether his work is pure, or upright.
Pro 20:12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye, Jehovah has even made both of them.
Pro 20:13 Do not love sleep, lest you become poor; open your eyes, be satisfied with bread.
Pro 20:14 Bad! Bad! says the buyer, but when it is left to him, then he boasts.
Pro 20:15 There is gold and a multitude of gems, but the lips of knowledge are a rare vessel.
Pro 20:16 Take the garment of the one who is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from one who guarantees for strangers.
Pro 20:17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Pro 20:18 Purposes are established in counsel; yea, make war with wise guidance.
Pro 20:19 A revealer of secrets walks about as a gossip, so do not meddle with him who opens his lips wide.
Pro 20:20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.
Pro 20:21 An inheritance may be gotten quickly in the beginning, but the end of it shall not be blessed.
Pro 20:22 Do not say, I will repay evil; wait on Jehovah, and He will save you.
Pro 20:23 A stone and a stone are hateful to Jehovah; and a false balance is not good.
Pro 20:24 The steps of a man are from Jehovah, and what can man discern of his way?
Pro 20:25 It is a snare to a man to say rashly, A holy thing, and after the vows to inquire about it.
Pro 20:26 A wise king scatters the wicked and turns the wheel over them.
Pro 20:27 The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah, searching all the inward parts of the heart.
Pro 20:28 Mercy and truth preserve the king, and his throne is upheld by mercy.
Pro 20:29 The glory of young men is their vigor, and the honor of old men is the gray head.
Pro 20:30 The stripes of a wound cleanse away evil, and strokes the inward parts of the heart.

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