Proverbs 20:8-20

⁸A king on the seat of judging puts to flight all evil with his eyes.

⁹Who is able to say, I have made my heart clean, I am free from my sin?

¹⁰Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.

¹¹Even a child may be judged by his doings, if his work is free from sin and if it is right.

¹²The hearing ear and the seeing eye are equally the Lord's work.

¹³Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.

¹⁴A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got.

¹⁵There is gold and a store of corals: but the lips of knowledge are a jewel of great price.

¹⁶Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.

¹⁷Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but after, his mouth will be full of sand.

¹⁸Every purpose is put into effect by wise help: and by wise guiding make war.

¹⁹He who goes about talking of the business of others gives away secrets: so have nothing to do with him whose lips are open wide.

²⁰If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.