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The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion.
    He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

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The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion;
One who provokes him to anger [a](A)forfeits his own life.

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  1. Proverbs 20:2 Lit sins against

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter;
    therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

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The [a](A)lazy one does not plow after the autumn,
So he [b]begs during the harvest and has nothing.

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  1. Proverbs 20:4 Lit idle
  2. Proverbs 20:4 Lit asks

A king who sits on the throne of judgment
    scatters away all evil with his eyes.

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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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  1. Proverbs 20:8 Or Sifts

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

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

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14 “It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer;
    but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

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

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16 Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger;
    and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

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

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26 A wise king winnows out the wicked,
    and drives the threshing wheel over them.

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26 A (A)wise king scatters the wicked,
And [a]drives a (B)threshing wheel over them.

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  1. Proverbs 20:26 Lit turns