Proverbs 20:5-30

⁵As deep water, so counsel is in the heart of a man; but a wise man shall draw it out.

⁶Many men be called merciful; but who shall find a faithful man?

⁷Forsooth a just or rightwise man that goeth in his simpleness, shall leave blessed sons after him.

⁸A king that sitteth in the seat of doom, destroyeth all evil by his looking.

⁹Who may say, Mine heart is clean; I am clean of sin?

¹⁰A weight, greater in buying, and a weight, lesser in selling, a measure and a measure, ever either is abominable at God.

¹¹A child is understood by his studies, if his works be rightful or right and clean.

¹²An ear hearing, and an eye seeing, or The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, God made ever either.

¹³Do not thou love sleep, lest needi-ness oppress thee; open thine eyes, and be thou ful filled with loaves.

¹⁴Each buyer saith, It is evil, it is evil; and when he hath gone away, then he shall have glory.

¹⁵Gold, and the multitude of gems, and a precious vessel, be the lips of knowing.

¹⁶Take thou away the cloth of him that was a borrow of another man; and for strangers take thou away a wed from him.

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.

²⁸Mercy and truth keep a king; and his throne is made strong by meekness.

²⁹The full out joying of young men is the strength of them; and the dignity of eld or old men is hoariness.

³⁰The wanness of wound shall wipe away evils, and wounds in the privier things of the womb.