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Proverbs 20:2-12

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

2 A king’s wrath strikes terror like the roar of a lion; those who anger him forfeit their lives.

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

3 It is to one’s honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel.

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

4 Sluggards do not plow in season; so at harvest time they look but find nothing.

5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

5 The purposes of a person’s heart are deep waters, but one who has insight draws them out.

6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

6 Many claim to have unfailing love, but a faithful person who can find?

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

7 The righteous lead blameless lives; blessed are their children after them.

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

8 When a king sits on his throne to judge, he winnows out all evil with his eyes.

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

9 Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am clean and without sin”?

10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

10 Differing weights and differing measures— the LORD detests them both.

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

11 Even small children are known by their actions, so is their conduct really pure and upright?

12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.

12 Ears that hear and eyes that see— the LORD has made them both.

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