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Proverbs 20 📜 📕 ↷
Wine Is a Mocker
1 Wine is a luxurious thing, & drunkenness tumultuous: whosoever is delighted therewith shall not be wise.📜💬📚
2 As the roaring of a lion, so also the terror of a king: he that provoketh him, sinneth also against his own soul.📜💬📚
3 It is honour to a man that separateth himself from contentions: but all fools meddle with contumelies.📜💬📚
4 Because of cold the slothful would not plow: he shall beg therefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him.📜💬📚
5 As deep water, so counsel in the heart of a man: but a wise man shall draw it out.📜💬📚
6 Many men are called merciful: but a faithful man who shall find?📜💬📚
7 The just that walketh in his simplicity, shall leave blessed children.📜💬📚
8 The king that sitteth in the throne of judgment, dissipateth all evil with his look.📜💬📚
9 Who can say: My heart is clean, I am pure from sin?📜💬📚
10 Weight and weight, measure and measure: both are abominable before God.📜💬📚
11 By his conversation a child is perceived, if his works be clean and right.📜💬📚
12 The ear hearing, and the eye seeing, our Lord made both.📜💬📚
13 Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thine eyes and be filled with breads.📜💬📚
14 It is naught, it is naught, saith every buyer: and when he is departed he will boast.📜💬📚
15 There is gold, and multitude of pearls: but a precious vessel the lips of knowledge.📜💬📚
16 Take his garment, that was the surety of a stranger, and for strangers take a pledge from him.📜💬📚
17 The bread of lying is sweet to a man: and afterward his mouth shall be filled with the gravel stone.📜💬📚
18 Cogitations are strengthened by counsels: and battles are to be handled by governments.📜💬📚
19 Meddle not with him that revealeth mysteries, and walketh fraudulently, and dilateth his lips.📜💬📚
20 He that curseth his father, and mother, his lamp shall be extinguished in the midst of darkness.📜💬📚
21 The inheritance whereunto haste is made in the beginning, in the later end shall lack blessing.📜💬📚
22 Say not, I will requite evil: expect our Lord, and he will deliver thee.📜💬📚
23 Weight and weight are abomination with our Lord: a deceitful balance is not good.📜💬📚
24 The steps of man are directed of our Lord: but who of men can understand his own way?📜💬📚
25 It is ruin to a man to devour saints, and afterward to retract the vows.📜💬📚
26 A wise king dissipateth the impious, and bendeth over them a triumphant arch.📜💬📚
27 The Lamp of our Lord the breath of a man, which searcheth all the secrets of the belly.📜💬📚
28 Mercy & truth keep the king, and his throne is strengthened by clemency.📜💬📚
29 The joy of youngmen their strength: and the dignity of oldmen a gray head.📜💬📚
30 The blueness of the wound shall wipe away evils: and stripes in the more secret place of the belly.📜💬📚
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