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The terror of a king is like the roar of a lion;
He who provokes him to anger (A)sins against his own soul.

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The king’s fury is like a lion’s roar;
    to rouse his anger is to risk your life.

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The (A)sluggard does not plow from winter on,
So he [a]begs during the harvest and has nothing.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 20:4 Lit asks

Those too lazy to plow in the right season
    will have no food at the harvest.

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(A)A king who sits on the throne of justice
[a]Disperses all evil with his eyes.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 20:8 Or Sifts

When a king sits in judgment, he weighs all the evidence,
    distinguishing the bad from the good.

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12 The hearing (A)ear and the seeing eye,
Yahweh has made both of them.

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12 Ears to hear and eyes to see—
    both are gifts from the Lord.

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14 “Bad, bad,” says the buyer,
But when he goes his way, then he boasts.

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14 The buyer haggles over the price, saying, “It’s worthless,”
    then brags about getting a bargain!

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16 Take his garment when he becomes a guarantor for a stranger;
And for foreigners, hold him in pledge.

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16 Get security from someone who guarantees a stranger’s debt.
    Get a deposit if he does it for foreigners.[a]

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  1. 20:16 An alternate reading in the Masoretic Text is for a promiscuous woman.

26 A (A)wise king winnows the wicked,
And turns the (B)threshing wheel over them.

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26 A wise king scatters the wicked like wheat,
    then runs his threshing wheel over them.

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