en_cepher - Pro 20 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ WINE is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

² The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.

³ It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

⁴ The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in 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 everyone his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

⁷ The just man walks in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

⁸ A king that sits in the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.

⁹ Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

¹⁰ Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to Yahuah.

¹¹ Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

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

¹³ Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

¹⁴ It is naught, it is naught, says the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

¹⁵ There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

¹⁶ Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

¹⁷ Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

¹⁸ Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

¹⁹ He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flatters with his lips.

²⁰ Whoso curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

²¹ An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

²² Say not, I will recompense evil; but wait on Yahuah, and he shall save you.

²³ Diverse weights are an abomination unto Yahuah; and a false balance is not good.

²⁴ Man's goings are of Yahuah; how can a man then understand his own way?

²⁵ It is a snare to the man who devours that which is holy, and after vows to make inquiry.

²⁶ A wise king scatters the wicked, and brings the wheel over them.

²⁷ The spirit of man is the candle of Yahuah, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

²⁸ Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upheld by mercy.

²⁹ The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.

³⁰ The blueness of a wound cleanses away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.