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Proverbs - ch 20 v 1 - 20
- Wine `is' a scorner -- strong drink `is' noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.
- The fear of a king `is' a growl as of a young lion, He who is causing him to be wroth is wronging his soul.
- An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.
- Because of winter the slothful plougheth not, He asketh in harvest, and there is nothing.
- Counsel in the heart of a man `is' deep water, And a man of understanding draweth it up.
- A multitude of men proclaim each his kindness, And a man of stedfastness who doth find?
- The righteous is walking habitually in his integrity, O the happiness of his sons after him!
- A king sitting on a throne of judgment, Is scattering with his eyes all evil,
- Who saith, `I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?'
- A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them `are' an abomination to Jehovah.
- Even by his actions a youth maketh himself known, Whether his work be pure or upright.
- A hearing ear, and a seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them.
- Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes -- be satisfied `with' bread.
- `Bad, bad,' saith the buyer, And going his way then he boasteth himself.
- Substance, gold, and a multitude of rubies, Yea, a precious vessel, `are' lips of knowledge.
- Take his garment when a stranger hath been surety, And for strangers pledge it.
- Sweet to a man `is' the bread of falsehood, And afterwards is his mouth filled `with' gravel.
- Purposes by counsel thou dost establish, And with plans make thou war.
- A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver `with' his lips make not thyself surety.
- Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.
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