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| לץ היין המה שכר וכל־שגה בו לא יחכם׃ | Prov 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. |
| נהם ככפיר אימת מלך מתעברו חוטא נפשו׃ | Prov 20:2 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul. |
| כבוד לאיש שבת מריב וכל־אויל יתגלע׃ | Prov 20:3 It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. |
| מחרף עצל לא־יחרש ושאל בקציר ואין׃ | Prov 20:4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. |
| מים עמקים עצה בלב־איש ואיש תבונה ידלנה׃ | Prov 20:5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. |
| רב־אדם יקרא איש חסדו ואיש אמונים מי ימצא׃ | Prov 20:6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? |
| מתהלך בתמו צדיק אשרי בניו אחריו׃ | Prov 20:7 The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him. |
| מלך יושב על־כסא־דין מזרה בעיניו כל־רע׃ | Prov 20:8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes. |
| מי־יאמר זכיתי לבי טהרתי מחטאתי׃ | Prov 20:9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? |
| אבן ואבן איפה ואיפה תועבת יהוה גם־שניהם׃ | Prov 20:10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD. |
| גם במעלליו יתנכר־נער אם־זך ואם־ישר פעלו׃ | Prov 20:11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. |
| אזן שמעת ועין ראה יהוה עשה גם־שניהם׃ | Prov 20:12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them. |
| אל־תאהב שנה פן־תורש פקח עיניך שבע־לחם׃ | Prov 20:13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. |
| רע רע יאמר הקונה ואזל לו אז יתהלל׃ | Prov 20:14 It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. |
| יש זהב ורב־פנינים וכלי יקר שפתי־דעת׃ | Prov 20:15 There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel. |
| לקח־בגדו כי־ערב זר ובעד נכריה חבלהו׃ | Prov 20:16 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. |
| ערב לאיש לחם שקר ואחר ימלא־פיהו חצץ׃ | Prov 20:17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. |
| מחשבות בעצה תכון ובתחבלות עשה מלחמה׃ | Prov 20:18 Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war. |
| גולה־סוד הולך רכיל ולפתה שפתיו לא תתערב׃ | Prov 20:19 He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips. |
| מקלל אביו ואמו ידעך נרו באשון חשך׃ | Prov 20:20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. |
| נחלה מבהלת בראשנה ואחריתה לא תברך׃ | Prov 20:21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. |
| אל־תאמר אשלמה־רע קוה ליהוה וישע לך׃ | Prov 20:22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee. |
| תועבת יהוה אבן ואבן ומאזני מרמה לא־טוב׃ | Prov 20:23 Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good. |
| מיהוה מצעדי־גבר ואדם מה־יבין דרכו׃ | Prov 20:24 Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way? |
| מוקש אדם ילע קדש ואחר נדרים לבקר׃ | Prov 20:25 It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry. |
| מזרה רשעים מלך חכם וישב עליהם אופן׃ | Prov 20:26 A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them. |
| נר יהוה נשמת אדם חפש כל־חדרי־בטן׃ | Prov 20:27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly. |
| חסד ואמת יצרו־מלך וסעד בחסד כסאו׃ | Prov 20:28 Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy. |
| תפארת בחורים כחם והדר זקנים שיבה׃ | Prov 20:29 The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head. |
| חברות פצע תמרוק ברע ומכות חדרי־בטן׃ | Prov 20:30 The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly. |