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