3.4 KiB
3.4 KiB
Proverbs 20
- Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
- The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger forfeits his life.
- It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.
- The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.
- The purpose in a man’s heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
- Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find?
- The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him!
- A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows all evil with his eyes.
- Who can say, “I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin”?
- Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the LORD.
- Even a child makes himself known by his acts, by whether his conduct is pure and upright.
- The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the LORD has made them both.
- Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.
- “Bad, bad,” says the buyer, but when he goes away, then he boasts.
- There is gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
- Take a man’s garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for foreigners.
- Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel.
- Plans are established by counsel; by wise guidance wage war.
- Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.
- If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.
- An inheritance gained hastily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.
- Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the LORD, and he will deliver you.
- Unequal weights are an abomination to the LORD, and false scales are not good.
- A man’s steps are from the LORD; how then can man understand his way?
- It is a snare to say rashly, “It is holy,” and to reflect only after making vows.
- A wise king winnows the wicked and drives the wheel over them.
- The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all his innermost parts.
- Steadfast love and faithfulness preserve the king, and by steadfast love his throne is upheld.
- The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair.
- Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts.
(ESV)