THE BOOK OF PROVERBS
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20:13. Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread.
20:14. It is naught, it is naught, saith every buyer: and when he is gone away, then he will boast.
20:15. There is gold and a multitude of jewels: but the lips of knowledge are a precious vessel.
20:16. Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers.
20:17. The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
20:18. Designs are strengthened by counsels: and wars are to be managed by governments.
20:19. Meddle not with him that revealeth secrets, and walketh deceitfully, and openeth wide his lips.
20:20. He that curseth his father, and mother, his lamp shall be put out in the midst of darkness.
20:21. The inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, in the end shall be without a blessing.
20:22. Say not: I will return evil: wait for the Lord, and he will deliver thee.
20:23. Diverse weights are an abomination before the Lord: a deceitful balance is not good.
20:24. The steps of men are guided by the Lord: but who is the man that can understand his own way?
20:25. It is ruin to a man to devour holy ones, and after vows to retract.
20:26. A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth over them the wheel.
20:27. The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, which searcheth all the hidden things of the bowels.
20:28. Mercy and truth preserve the king, and his throne is strengthened by clemency.
20:29. The joy of young men is their strength: and the dignity of old men, their grey hairs.
20:30. The blueness of a wound shall wipe away evils: and stripes in the more inward parts of the belly.
Proverbs Chapter 21
21:1. As the divisions of waters, so the heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord: whithersoever he will, he shall turn it.
21:2. Every way of a man seemeth right to himself: but the Lord weigheth the hearts.
21:3. To do mercy and judgment, pleaseth the Lord more than victims.
21:4. Haughtiness of the eyes is the enlarging of the heart: the lamp of the wicked is sin.
21:5. The thoughts of the industrious always bring forth abundance: but every sluggard is always in want.
21:6. He that gathereth treasures by a lying tongue, is vain and foolish, and shall stumble upon the snares of death.
21:7. The robberies of the wicked shall be their downfall, because they would not do judgment.
21:8. The perverse way of a man is strange: but as for him that is pure, his work is right.
21:9. It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.
21:10. The soul of the wicked desireth evil, he will not have pity on his neighbour.
21:11. When a pestilent man is punished, the little one will be wiser: and if he follow the wise, he will receive knowledge.
21:12. The just considereth seriously the house of the wicked, that he may withdraw the wicked from evil.
21:13. He that stoppeth his ear against the cry of the poor, shall also cry himself, and shall not be heard.
21:14. A secret present quencheth anger: and a gift in the bosom, the greatest wrath.
21:15. It is joy to the just to do judgment: and dread to them that work iniquity.
21:16. A man that shall wander out of the way of doctrine, shall abide in the company of the giants.
21:17. He that loveth good cheer, shall be in want: he that loveth wine, and fat things, shall not be rich.
21:18. The wicked is delivered up for the just: and the unjust for the righteous.
21:19. It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and passionate woman.
21:20. There is a treasure to be desired, and oil in the dwelling of the just: and the foolish man shall spend it.
21:21. He that followeth justice and mercy, shall find life, justice, and glory.