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| Proverbs 20:1 | Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. | Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise. | Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness riotous: whosoever is delighted therewith shell not be wise. | Wine [is] a scorner strong drink [is] noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise. |
| Proverbs 20:2 | The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul. | The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: He that provoketh him to anger sinneth [against] his own life. | As the roaring of a lion, so also is the dread of a king: he that provoketh him, sinneth against his own soul. | The fear of a king [is] a growl as of a young lion, He who is causing him to be wroth is wronging his soul. |
| Proverbs 20:3 | It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. | It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; But every fool will be quarrelling. | It is an honour for a man to separate himself from quarrels: but all fools are meddling with reproaches. | An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth. |
| Proverbs 20:4 | The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. | The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing. | Because of the cold the sluggard would not plough: he shall beg therefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him. | Because of winter the slothful plougheth not, He asketh in harvest, and there is nothing. |
| Proverbs 20:5 | Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. | Counsel in the heart of man is [like] deep water; But a man of understanding will draw it out. | Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water: but a wise man will draw it out. | Counsel in the heart of a man [is] deep water, And a man of understanding draweth it up. |
| Proverbs 20:6 | Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? | Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; But a faithful man who can find? | Many men are called merciful: but who shall find a faithful man? | A multitude of men proclaim each his kindness, And a man of stedfastness who doth find? |
| Proverbs 20:7 | The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him. | A righteous man that walketh in his integrity, Blessed are his children after him. | The just that walketh in his simplicity, shall leave behind him blessed children. | The righteous is walking habitually in his integrity, O the happiness of his sons after him! |
| Proverbs 20:8 | A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes. | A king that sitteth on the throne of judgment Scattereth away all evil with his eyes. | The king, that sitteth on the throne of judgment, scattereth away all evil with his look. | A king sitting on a throne of judgment, Is scattering with his eyes all evil, |
| Proverbs 20:9 | Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? | Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? | Who can say: My heart is clean, I am pure from sin? | Who saith, `I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?` |
| Proverbs 20:10 | Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD. | Diverse weights, and diverse measures, Both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah. | Diverse weights and diverse measures, both are abominable before God. | A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them [are] an abomination to Jehovah. |
| Proverbs 20:11 | Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. | Even a child maketh himself known by his doings, Whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. | By his inclinations a child is known, if his works be clean and right. | Even by his actions a youth maketh himself known, Whether his work be pure or upright. |
| Proverbs 20:12 | The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them. | The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them. | The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made them both. | A hearing ear, and a seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them. |
| Proverbs 20:13 | Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. | Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread. | Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread. | Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes be satisfied [with] bread. |
| Proverbs 20:14 | It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. | It is bad, it is bad, saith the buyer; But when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. | It is nought, it is nought, saith every buyer: and when he is gone away, then he will boast. | `Bad, bad,` saith the buyer, And going his way then he boasteth himself. |
| Proverbs 20:15 | There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel. | There is gold, and abundance of rubies; But the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel. | There is gold, and a multitude of jewels: but the lips of knowledge are a precious vessel. | Substance, gold, and a multitude of rubies, Yea, a precious vessel, [are] lips of knowledge. |
| Proverbs 20:16 | Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. | Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge [that is surety] for foreigners. | Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers. | Take his garment when a stranger hath been surety, And for strangers pledge it. |
| Proverbs 20:17 | Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. | Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. | The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. | Sweet to a man [is] the bread of falsehood, And afterwards is his mouth filled [with] gravel. |
| Proverbs 20:18 | Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war. | Every purpose is established by counsel; And by wise guidance make thou war. | Designs are strengthened by counsels: and wars are to be managed by governments. | Purposes by counsel thou dost establish, And with plans make thou war. |
| Proverbs 20:19 | He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips. | He that goeth about as a tale-bearer revealeth secrets; Therefore company not with him that openeth wide his lips. | Meddle not with him that revealeth secrets, and walketh deceitfully, and openeth wide his lips. | A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver [with] his lips make not thyself surety. |
| Proverbs 20:20 | Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. | Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness. | He that curseth his father, and mother, his lamp shall be put out in the midst of darkness. | Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness. |
| Proverbs 20:21 | An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. | An inheritance [may be] gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not be blessed. | The inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, in the end shall be without a blessing. | An inheritance gotten wrongly at first, Even its latter end is not blessed. |
| Proverbs 20:22 | Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee. | Say not thou, I will recompense evil: Wait for Jehovah, and he will save thee. | Say not: I will return evil: wait for the Lord and he will deliver thee. | Do not say, `I recompense evil,` Wait for Jehovah, and He delivereth thee. |
| Proverbs 20:23 | Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good. | Diverse weights are an abomination to Jehovah; And a false balance is not good. | Diverse weights are an abomination before the Lord: a deceitful balance is not good. | An abomination to Jehovah [are] a stone and a stone, And balances of deceit [are] not good. |
| Proverbs 20:24 | Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way? | A man's goings are of Jehovah; How then can man understand his way? | The steps of man are guided by the Lord: but who is the man that can understand his own way? | From Jehovah [are] the steps of a man, And man how understandeth he his way? |
| Proverbs 20:25 | It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry. | It is a snare to a man rashly to say, [It is] holy, And after vows to make inquiry. | It is ruin to a man to devour holy ones, and after vows to retract. | A snare to a man [is] he hath swallowed a holy thing, And after vows to make inquiry. |
| Proverbs 20:26 | A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them. | A wise king winnoweth the wicked, And bringeth the [threshing] -wheel over them. | A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth over them the wheel. | A wise king is scattering the wicked, And turneth back on them the wheel. |
| Proverbs 20:27 | The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly. | The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah, Searching all his innermost parts. | The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, which searcheth all the hidden things of the bowels. | The breath of man [is] a lamp of Jehovah, Searching all the inner parts of the heart. |
| Proverbs 20:28 | Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy. | Kindness and truth preserve the king; And his throne is upholden by kindness. | Mercy and truth preserve the king, and his throne is strengthened by clemency. | Kindness and truth keep a king, And he hath supported by kindness his throne. |
| Proverbs 20:29 | The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head. | The glory of young men is their strength; And the beauty of old men is the hoary head. | The joy of young men is their strength: and the dignity of old men, their grey hairs. | The beauty of young men is their strength, And the honour of old men is grey hairs. |
| Proverbs 20:30 | The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly. | Stripes that wound cleanse away evil; And strokes [reach] the innermost parts. | The blueness of a wound shall wipe away evils: and stripes in the more in- ward parts of the belly. | The bandages of a wound thou removest with the evil, Also the plagues of the inner parts of the heart! |
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