{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/kjv/pro020.htm","path":"bib/kjv/pro020.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/pro020.htm","text":"1\u00a0Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.\n \n2\u00a0The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.\n \n3\u00a0It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.\n \n4\u00a0The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.\n \n5\u00a0Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.\n \n6\u00a0Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?\n \n7\u00a0The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.\n \n8\u00a0A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.\n \n9\u00a0Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?\n \n10\u00a0Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.\n \n11\u00a0Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.\n \n12\u00a0The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.\n \n13\u00a0Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.\n \n14\u00a0It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.\n \n15\u00a0There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.\n \n16\u00a0Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.\n \n17\u00a0Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.\n \n18\u00a0Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.\n \n19\u00a0He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.\n \n20\u00a0Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.\n \n21\u00a0An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.\n \n22\u00a0Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.\n \n23\u00a0Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.\n \n24\u00a0Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?\n \n25\u00a0It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.\n \n26\u00a0A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.\n \n27\u00a0The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.\n \n28\u00a0Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.\n \n29\u00a0The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head.\n \n30\u00a0The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.","title":"King James Version: Proverbs: Proverbs Chapter 20","type":"page"}