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The chapter warns that wine deceives, commends diligent work and honest weights, values wise counsel, recognizes the difficulty of knowing motives, and describes a wise king as discerning evil.
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Proverbs 20
The chapter warns that wine deceives, commends diligent work and honest weights, values wise counsel, recognizes the difficulty of knowing motives, and describes a wise king as discerning evil.
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Verses 1–7Wine, rulers, strife, laziness, counsel, integrity, and faithful characterVerses 8–15Judgment, human sinfulness, honest measures, childhood conduct, and the value of knowledgeVerses 16–23Surety, deceitful gain, counsel, talebearing, dishonoring parents, inheritance, and honest weightsVerses 24–30The LORD directs steps; rash vows, righteous kings, human spirit, mercy, and correction
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1Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever…2The fear of a king is as the roaring of…3It is an honour for a man to cease from…4The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold;…5Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water;…6Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but…7The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are…8A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth…9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I…10Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike…11Even a child is known by his doings, whether his…12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath…13Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine…14It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but…15There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the…16Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and…17Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards…18Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice…19He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore…20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall…21An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but…22Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on…23Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a…24Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man…25It is a snare to the man who devoureth that…26A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel…27The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD,…28Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is…29The glory of young men is their strength: and the…30The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do…