Proverbs 20
1Wine <add>is</add> a mocker, strong drink <add>is</add> raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.2The fear of a king <add>is</add> as the roaring of a lion: <add>whoso</add> provoketh him to anger sinneth <add>against</add> his own soul.3<add>It is</add> an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.4The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; <add>therefore</add> shall he beg in harvest, and <add>have</add> nothing.5Counsel in the heart of man <add>is like</add> 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?7The just <add>man</add> walketh in his integrity: his children <add>are</add> blessed after him.8A king that sitteth in 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, <add>and</add> divers measures, both of them <add>are</add> alike abomination to the LORD.11Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work <add>be</add> pure, and whether <add>it be</add> 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, <add>and</add> thou shalt be satisfied with bread.14<add>It is</add> naught, <add>it is</add> naught, 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 <add>are</add> a precious jewel.16Take his garment that is surety <add>for</add> a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.17Bread of deceit <add>is</add> sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.18<add>Every</add> purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.19He that goeth about <add>as</add> a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.21An inheritance <add>may be</add> gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.22Say not thou, I will recompense evil; <add>but</add> wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.23Divers weights <add>are</add> an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance <add>is</add> not good.24Man’s goings <add>are</add> of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?25<add>It is</add> a snare to the man <add>who</add> devoureth <add>that which is</add> holy, and after vows to make enquiry.26A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.27The spirit of man <add>is</add> the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.28Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.29The glory of young men <add>is</add> their strength: and the beauty of old men <add>is</add> the grey head.30The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so <add>do</add> stripes the inward parts of the belly.