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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Proverbs 20 King James 2000</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/proverbs/20.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/proverbs/20-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">King James 2000</a> > Proverbs 20</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../proverbs/19.htm" title="Proverbs 19">◄</a> Proverbs 20 <a href="../proverbs/21.htm" title="Proverbs 21">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">King James 2000</div><div class="chap"><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="black">Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="black">The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whosoever provokes him to anger sins against his own life.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="black">It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="black">The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="black">Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="black">Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="black">The just man walks in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="black">A king that sits in the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="black">Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="black">Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="black">Even a child is known by his acts, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="black">The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has made even both of them.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="black">Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="black">It is nothing, it is nothing, says the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="black">There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="black">Take his garment who is surety for a stranger: and hold it as a pledge of him for an immoral woman.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="black">Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="black">Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice wage war.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="black">He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore associate not with him who flatters with his lips.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="black">Whosoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in utter darkness.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="black">An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="black">Say not, I will repay evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save you.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="black">Diverse weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="black">A man's steps are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="black">It is a snare to the man to declare something is holy, and afterward to reconsider his vows.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="black">A wise king winnows the wicked, and drives the wheel over them.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="black">The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all the inner depths of the heart.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="black">Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upheld by mercy.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="black">The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/20-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="black">Blows of a wound cleanse away evil: as do stripes the inner depths of the heart.</span></p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The King James 2000 Bible, copyright © Doctor of Theology Robert A. 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