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The Listener’s Bible®: KJV Edition

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 <div class="label">20</div><div class="q1"> 1Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging:</div><div class="q2">And whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.</div><div class="q1"> 2The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion:</div><div class="q2"> Whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.</div><div class="q1"> 3 It is an honour for a man to cease from strife:</div><div class="q2">But every fool will be meddling.</div><div class="q1"> 4The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold;</div><div class="q2"> Therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.</div><div class="q1"> 5Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water;</div><div class="q2">But a man of understanding will draw it out.</div><div class="q1"> 6Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness:</div><div class="q2">But a faithful man who can find?</div><div class="q1"> 7The just man walketh in his integrity:</div><div class="q2">His children are blessed after him.</div><div class="q1"> 8A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment</div><div class="q2">Scattereth away all evil with his eyes.</div><div class="q1"> 9Who can say, I have made my heart clean,</div><div class="q2">I am pure from my sin?</div><div class="q1"> 10Divers weights, and divers measures,</div><div class="q2">Both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.</div><div class="q1"> 11Even a child is known by his doings,</div><div class="q2">Whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.</div><div class="q1"> 12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,</div><div class="q2">The LORD hath made even both of them.</div><div class="q1"> 13Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty;</div><div class="q2">Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.</div><div class="q1"> 14 It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer:</div><div class="q2">But when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.</div><div class="q1"> 15There is gold, and a multitude of rubies:</div><div class="q2">But the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.</div><div class="q1"> 16Take his garment that is surety for a stranger:</div><div class="q2">And take a pledge of him for a strange woman.</div><div class="q1"> 17Bread of deceit is sweet to a man;</div><div class="q2">But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.</div><div class="q1"> 18 Every purpose is established by counsel:</div><div class="q2">And with good advice make war.</div><div class="q1"> 19He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets:</div><div class="q2">Therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.</div><div class="q1"> 20Whoso curseth his father or his mother,</div><div class="q2">His lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.</div><div class="q1"> 21An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning;</div><div class="q2">But the end thereof shall not be blessed.</div><div class="q1"> 22Say not thou, I will recompense evil;</div><div class="q2"> But wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.</div><div class="q1"> 23Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD;</div><div class="q2">And a false balance is not good.</div><div class="q1"> 24Man's goings are of the LORD;</div><div class="q2">How can a man then understand his own way?</div><div class="q1"> 25 It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy,</div><div class="q2">And after vows to make enquiry.</div><div class="q1"> 26A wise king scattereth the wicked,</div><div class="q2">And bringeth the wheel over them.</div><div class="q1"> 27The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD,</div><div class="q2">Searching all the inward parts of the belly.</div><div class="q1"> 28Mercy and truth preserve the king:</div><div class="q2">And his throne is upholden by mercy.</div><div class="q1"> 29The glory of young men is their strength:</div><div class="q2">And the beauty of old men is the grey head.</div><div class="q1"> 30The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil:</div><div class="q2">So do stripes the inward parts of the belly.</div><div class="b"></div>
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