Proverbs 20:3-20

³People respect those who stay away from disputes/arguments; foolish people love to quarrel.

⁴If a lazy man does not plow his fields at the right/proper time, he will look for crops at harvest time, but there will be nothing there.

⁵Just as it is difficult to bring up water from a deep well, it is difficult to know what people are thinking, but someone who has good sense/insight will be able to find out what people are thinking.

⁶Many people proclaim that they can be trusted to do what they say that they will do, but it is very difficult to find RHQ someone who can really be trusted.

⁷If parents conduct their lives as they should, God blesses their children (OR, their children are very happy/fortunate).

⁸A king who sits on his throne to judge people can easily MTY find out what things that people have done are good and what things are evil.

⁹There is no one RHQ who can truthfully say, “I do not know of any wrong things that I have done; I have ◄gotten rid of all my sinful behavior/quit doing what is sinful►.”

¹⁰Yahweh detests people who use weights that are not right and measures that are not correct.

¹¹Even children show by what they do whether they are good or not; they show whether ◄what they do/their behavior► is honest and right or not.

¹²Two of the things that Yahweh has created for us are ears to hear things and eyes to see things.

¹³If you want to sleep all the time, you will become poor; if you stay awake and work, you will have plenty of food.

¹⁴People look at things that they are about to buy, and in order to get it for a lower price sometimes they say, “◄It is no good/It is poor quality►,” but after they buy it, they go and boast about having bought it for a cheap price.

¹⁵Gold and precious stones are valuable, but wise words MTY are more valuable.

¹⁶If you foolishly promise to a stranger that you will pay what he owes if he is unable to pay it DOU, you deserve to have someone take your coat from you.

¹⁷People may think that food that they acquire by doing what is dishonest will taste very good, but later they will not enjoy what they have done any more than they would enjoy eating gravel/sand.

¹⁸When people give you good advice, if you do what they suggest, your plans will succeed; so be sure to get good advice from wise people before you start fighting a war.

¹⁹Those who go around telling gossip are always telling secrets to others; so stay away from people who foolishly talk too much.

²⁰If someone curses his father or his mother, his life will be ended, just like a lamp is extinguished.