Proverbs 20:3-22

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

⁴The sluggard will not plow when winter setteth in; 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 will proclaim every one his own goodness; but a faithful man who can find?

⁷He that walketh in his integrity as a just man, happy 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 is 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 have bread in plenty.

¹⁴'It is bad, it is bad', saith the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

¹⁵There is gold, and a multitude of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

¹⁶Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; and hold him in pledge that is surety for an alien woman.

¹⁷Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

¹⁸Every purpose is established by counsel; and with good advice carry on war.

¹⁹He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets; therefore meddle not with him that openeth wide his lips.

²⁰Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in the blackest darkness.

²¹An estate may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

²²Say not thou: 'I will requite evil'; wait for the LORD, and He will save thee.