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Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise (20:1)

The fear of a king [is] as the roaring of a lion: [whoso] provoketh him to anger sinneth [against] his own soul (20:2)

[It is] an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling (20:3)

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; [therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing (20:4)

Counsel in the heart of man [is like] deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out (20:5)

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? (20:6)

The just [man] walketh in his integrity: his children [are] blessed after him (20:7)

A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes (20:8)

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? (20:9)

Divers weights, [and] divers measures, both of them [are] alike abomination to the Lord (20:10)

Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work [be] pure, and whether [it be] right (20:11)

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them (20:12)

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread (20:13)

[It is] naught, [it is] naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth (20:14)

There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge [are] a precious jewel (20:15)

Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman (20:16)

Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel (20:17)

[Every] purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war (20:18)

He that goeth about [as] a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips (20:19)

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness (20:20)

An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed (20:21)

Say not thou, I will recompense evil; [but] wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee (20:22)

Divers weights [are] an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance [is] not good (20:23)

Man's goings [are] of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way? (20:24)

[It is] a snare to the man [who] devoureth [that which is] holy, and after vows to make inquiry (20:25)

A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them (20:26)

The spirit of man [is] the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly (20:27)

Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy (20:28)

The glory of young men [is] their strength: and the beauty of old men [is] the grey head (20:29)

The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so [do] stripes the inward parts of the belly (20:30)

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