Proverbs Chapter 20

Life and Conduct

20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived by it isn’t wise.
20:2 The fear of a king is like the roaring of a lion: whoever provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.
20:3 It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
20:4 The lazy won’t plow because of the cold; So will he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
20:5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
20:6 Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
20:7 The just man walks in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
20:8 A king that sits in the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
20:9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
20:10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here.
20:11 Even a child is known by his deeds, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
20:12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here has made even both of them.
20:13 Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
20:14 It is naught, it is naught, says the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
20:15 There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
20:16 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
20:17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
20:18 Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
20:19 He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: So meddle not with him that flatters with his lips.
20:20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
20:21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end of it shall not be blessed.
20:22 Don’t you say, I will repay evil; but wait on YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, and he shall save you.
20:23 Divers weights are an abomination to YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here; and a false balance is not good.
20:24 Man’s goings are of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here; how can a man then understand his own way?
20:25 It is a snare to the man who devours that which is holy, and after vows to make inquiry.
20:26 A wise king scatters the wicked, and brings the wheel over them.
20:27 The spirit of man is the candle of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
20:28 Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholds by mercy.
20:29 The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head.
20:30 The blueness of a wound cleanses away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.