^20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler and whoever straying by it is not wise.

    ^20:2 The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger sins against his own life.

    ^20:3 It is an honor for a man to cease from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

    ^20:4 The sluggard will not plow because of the winter. Therefore he will beg in harvest and have nothing.

    ^20:5 Purpose in the heart of man is deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.

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

    ^20:7 A righteous man who walks in his integrity, his sons after him are fortunate.

    ^20:8 A king who sits on 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 Diverse weights and diverse measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah.

    ^20:11 Even a child makes himself known by his practices, whether his work be pure and whether it is right.

    ^20:12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye, Jehovah has made even both of them.

    ^20:13 Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes and you will be satisfied with bread.

    ^20:14 It is bad, it is bad, says the buyer, but when he has gone his way, then he boasts.

    ^20:15 There is gold and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

    ^20:16 Take his garment because it is a surety for a stranger and hold him in pledge for foreigners.

    ^20:17 Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth will be filled with gravel.

    ^20:18 Every purpose is established by counsel and make war with wise guidance.

    ^20:19 He who goes about as a gossiper reveals secrets. Therefore do not associate with he who opens his lips wide.

    ^20:20 He who curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in blackness of darkness.

    ^20:21 An inheritance gotten hastily at the beginning will not be praised in the end.

    ^20:22 Do not say, I will recompense evil. Wait for Jehovah and he will save you.

    ^20:23 Diverse weights are an abomination to Jehovah and a false balance is not good.

    ^20:24 A man's goings are of Jehovah, how then can man understand his way?

    ^20:25 It is a snare to a man to say rashly, It is holy. And to make inquiry after vows.

    ^20:26 A wise king scatters the wicked and brings the wheel over them.

    ^20:27 The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah, searching all his innermost parts.

    ^20:28 Kindness and truth preserve the king and his throne is upheld by kindness.

    ^20:29 The glory of young men is their strength and the beauty of old men is the gray-hair.

    ^20:30 Stripes that wound cleanse away evil and strokes the innermost parts.