PROVERBS 20:2-14

²The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: he that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own life.

³It is an honour for a man to keep aloof from strife: but every fool will be quarrelling.

⁴The slothful will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

⁵Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

⁶Most men wilt proclaim every one his own kindness: but a faithful man who can find?

⁷A just man that walketh in his integrity, blessed are his children after him.

⁸A king that sitteth on the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.

⁹Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

¹⁰Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.

¹¹Even a child maketh himself known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

¹²The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.

¹³Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

¹⁴It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.