Proverbs 20:17-27

¹⁷The bread of a leasing, that is, gotten by a leasing, is sweet to a man; and afterward his mouth shall be filled with reckoning or with little pebble stones.

¹⁸Thoughts be made strong by counsels; and battles shall be treated by governances.

¹⁹Be thou not meddled or mingled with him that showeth privates, and goeth guilefully, and alargeth his lips.

²⁰The light of him that curseth his father and mother, shall be quenched in the midst of darknesses.

²¹Heritage to which men hasteth in the beginning, shall want blessing in the last time.

²²Say thou not, I shall yield evil for evil; abide thou the Lord, and he shall deliver thee.

²³Abomination with God is weight and weight; a guileful balance is not good.

²⁴The steps of man be dressed of the Lord; who forsooth of men may understand his way?

²⁵Falling of man is to make avow or vow to saints, and afterward to withdraw the vows.

²⁶A wise king scattereth wicked men; and boweth a bow of victory, that is, a stone bow, over them.

²⁷The lantern of the Lord is the spirit of man, that seeketh out all the privates of the womb.