Proverbs 20 KJV

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