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