Proverbs 20:8-23

⁸Whenever a righteous king sits on the throne, no evil thing can stand before his presence.

⁹Who will boast that he has a pure heart? or who will boldly say that he is pure from sins?

¹⁰A large and small weight, and various measures, are even both of them unclean before the Lord; and so is he that makes them.

¹¹A youth when in company with a godly man, will be restrained in his devices, and then his way will be straight.

¹²The ear hears, and the eye sees: even both of them are the Lord's work.

¹³Love not to speak ill, lest you be cut off: open your eyes, and be filled with bread.

²⁰The lamp of him that reviles father or mother shall be put out, and his eyeballs shall see darkness.

²¹A portion hastily gotten at first shall not be blessed in the end.

²²Say not, I will avenge myself on my enemy; but wait on the Lord, that he may help you.

²³A double weight is an abomination to the Lord; and a deceitful balance is not good in his sight.