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Proverbs - ch 20 v 1 - 20
- Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
- The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.
- It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling.
- The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
- Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
- Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?
- A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.
- A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
- Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"
- Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
- Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.
- The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.
- Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
- "It's no good, it's no good," says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
- There is gold and abundance of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.
- Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.
- Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
- Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!
- He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don't keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
- Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
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