Pr 20:1 Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whoever is deceived by it is not wise.

Pr 20:2 The fear of a king [is] as the roaring of a lion: [whoever] provoketh him to anger sinneth [against] his own soul.

Pr 20:3 [It is] an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

Pr 20:4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; [therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing.

Pr 20:5 Counsel in the heart of man [is like] deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

Pr 20:6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

Pr 20:7 The just [man] walketh in his integrity: his children [are] blessed after him.

Pr 20:8 A king that sitteth on the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.

Pr 20:9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Pr 20:10 Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike abomination to the LORD.

Pr 20:11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work [is] pure, and whether [it is] right.

Pr 20:12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.

Pr 20:13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thy eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Pr 20:14 [It is] naught, [it is] naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone, then he boasteth.

Pr 20:15 There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge [are] a precious jewel.

Pr 20:16 Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

Pr 20:17 Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Pr 20:18 [Every] purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

Pr 20:19 He that goeth about [as] a tale-bearer revealeth secrets; therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

Pr 20:20 Whoever curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

Pr 20:21 An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end of it shall not be blessed.

Pr 20:22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; [but] wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.

Pr 20:23 Divers weights [are] an abomination to the LORD; and a false balance [is] not good.

Pr 20:24 Man's goings [are] of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

Pr 20:25 [It is] a snare to the man [who] devoureth [that which is] holy, and after vows to make inquiry.

Pr 20:26 A wise king scatterreth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.

Pr 20:27 The spirit of man [is] the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

Pr 20:28 Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upheld by mercy.

Pr 20:29 The glory of young men [is] their strength: and the beauty of old men [is] the gray head.

Pr 20:30 The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so [do] stripes the inward parts of the belly.