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Honest Merchant Weighs Barley for a Widow
by emmanuel_higgins
20
:
23
Proverbs 20:23
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1
Wine
is
a
mocker, strong drink
is
raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
2
The fear of a king
is
as the roaring of a lion:
whoso
provoketh him to anger sinneth
against
his own soul.
3
It is
an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
4
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold;
therefore
shall he beg in harvest, and
have
nothing.
5
Counsel in the heart of man
is like
deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
6
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
7
The just
man
walketh in his integrity: his children
are
blessed after him.
8
A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
9
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
10
Divers weights,
and
divers measures, both of them
are
alike abomination to the
L
ORD
.
11
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work
be
pure, and whether
it be
right.
12
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the
L
ORD
hath made even both of them.
13
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes,
and
thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
14
It is
naught,
it is
naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
15
There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge
are
a precious jewel.
16
Take his garment that is surety
for
a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
17
Bread of deceit
is
sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
18
Every
purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
19
He that goeth about
as
a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
20
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
21
An inheritance
may be
gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
22
Say not thou, I will recompense evil;
but
wait on the
L
ORD
, and he shall save thee.
Divers weights
are
an abomination unto the
L
ORD
; and a false balance
is
not good.
24
Man’s goings
are
of the
L
ORD
; how can a man then understand his own way?
25
It is
a snare to the man
who
devoureth
that which is
holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
26
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
27
The spirit of man
is
the candle of the
L
ORD
, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
28
Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.
29
The glory of young men
is
their strength: and the beauty of old men
is
the gray head.
30
The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so
do
stripes the inward parts of the belly.
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