Proverbs 20
Authorized King James Version (1769) with AI Commentary
1Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.🔗🔍
2The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.🔗🔍
3It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.🔗🔍
4The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.🔗🔍
5Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.🔗🔍
6Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?🔗🔍
7The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.🔗🔍
8A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.🔗🔍
9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?🔗🔍
10Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.🔗🔍
11Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.🔗🔍
12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.🔗🔍
13Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.🔗🔍
14It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.🔗🔍
15There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.🔗🔍
16Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.🔗🔍
17Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.🔗🔍
18Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.🔗🔍
19He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.🔗🔍
20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.🔗🔍
21An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.🔗🔍
22Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.🔗🔍
23Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.🔗🔍
24Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?🔗🔍
25It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.🔗🔍
26A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.🔗🔍
27The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.🔗🔍
28Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.🔗🔍
29The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.🔗🔍
30The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.🔗🔍
2The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.🔗🔍
3It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.🔗🔍
4The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.🔗🔍
5Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.🔗🔍
6Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?🔗🔍
7The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.🔗🔍
8A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.🔗🔍
9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?🔗🔍
10Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.🔗🔍
11Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.🔗🔍
12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.🔗🔍
13Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.🔗🔍
14It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.🔗🔍
15There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.🔗🔍
16Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.🔗🔍
17Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.🔗🔍
18Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.🔗🔍
19He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.🔗🔍
20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.🔗🔍
21An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.🔗🔍
22Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.🔗🔍
23Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.🔗🔍
24Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?🔗🔍
25It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.🔗🔍
26A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.🔗🔍
27The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.🔗🔍
28Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.🔗🔍
29The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.🔗🔍
30The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.🔗🔍
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