Proverbs 20 — KJVCP

20Verse 1Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging:
And whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
^{Verse 2}The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion:
Whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
^{Verse 3}It is an honour for a man to cease from strife:
But every fool will be meddling.
^{Verse 4}The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold;
Therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
^{Verse 5}Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water;
But a man of understanding will draw it out.
^{Verse 6}Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness:
But a faithful man who can find?
^{Verse 7}The just man walketh in his integrity:
His children are blessed after him.
^{Verse 8}A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment
Scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
^{Verse 9}Who can say, I have made my heart clean,
I am pure from my sin?
^{Verse 10}Divers weights, and divers measures,
Both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.
^{Verse 11}Even a child is known by his doings,
Whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
^{Verse 12}The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,
The Lord hath made even both of them.
^{Verse 13}Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty;
Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
^{Verse 14}It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer:
But when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
^{Verse 15}There is gold, and a multitude of rubies:
But the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
^{Verse 16}Take his garment that is surety for a stranger:
And take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
^{Verse 17}Bread of deceit is sweet to a man;
But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
^{Verse 18}Every purpose is established by counsel:
And with good advice make war.
^{Verse 19}He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets:
Therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
^{Verse 20}Whoso curseth his father or his mother,
His lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
^{Verse 21}An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning;
But the end thereof shall not be blessed.
^{Verse 22}Say not thou, I will recompense evil;
But wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.
^{Verse 23}Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord;
And a false balance is not good.
^{Verse 24}Man’s goings are of the Lord;
How can a man then understand his own way?
^{Verse 25}It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy,
And after vows to make inquiry.
^{Verse 26}A wise king scattereth the wicked,
And bringeth the wheel over them.
^{Verse 27}The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord,
Searching all the inward parts of the belly.
^{Verse 28}Mercy and truth preserve the king:
And his throne is upholden by mercy.
^{Verse 29}The glory of young men is their strength:
And the beauty of old men is the gray head.
^{Verse 30}The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil:
So do stripes the inward parts of the belly.