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PROVERBS
20.16
- 25When thou smitest a scorner, the simple will become prudent;
- And when one that hath understanding is reproved, he will understand knowledge.
- 26A son that dealeth shamefully and reproachfully
- Will despoil his father, and chase away his mother.
- 27Cease, my son, to hear the instruction
- That causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
- 28An ungodly witness mocketh at right;
- And the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
- 29Judgments are prepared for scorners,
- And stripes for the back of fools.
- 20 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is riotous;
- And whosoever reeleth thereby is not wise.
- 2The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion:
- He that provoketh him to anger forfeiteth his life.
- 3It is an honour for a man to keep aloof from strife;
- But every fool will be snarling.
- 4The sluggard will not plow when winter setteth in;
- Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
- 5Counsel in the heart of man is like 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?
- 7He that walketh in his integrity as a just man,
- Happy are his children after him.
- 8A king that sitteth on 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, and divers measures,
- Both of them alike are abomination to the Lord.
- 11Even a child is known by his doings,
- Whether his work be pure, and whether it be 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, and thou shalt have bread in plenty.
- 14'It is bad, it is bad', 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 are a precious jewel.
- 16Take his garment that is surety for a stranger;
- And hold him in pledge that is surety for an alien woman.
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