Proverbs 20:1-15

New King James Version

² The ^[a]wrath of a king is like the roaring of a lion;
Whoever provokes him to anger sins against his own life.

^3 (B)It is honorable for a man to stop striving,
Since any fool can start a quarrel.

^4 (C)The lazy man will not plow because of winter;
^(D)He will beg during 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 each his own ^[b]goodness,
But who can find a faithful man?

^7 (E)The righteous man walks in his integrity;
^(F)His children are blessed after him.

⁸ A king who sits on the throne of judgment
Scatters all evil with his eyes.

^9 (G)Who can say, “I have made my heart clean,
I am pure from my sin”?

^10 (H)Diverse weights and diverse measures,
They are both alike, an abomination to the Lord.

¹¹ Even a child is ^(I)known by his deeds,
Whether what he does is pure and right.

^12 (J)The hearing ear and the seeing eye,
The Lord has made them both.

^13 (K)Do not love sleep, lest you come to poverty;
Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with bread.

¹⁴ “It is ^[c]good for nothing,” cries the buyer;
But when he has gone his way, then he boasts.

¹⁵ There is gold and a multitude of rubies,
But ^(L)the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.