{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/proverbs/20","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T12:20:35.799Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Proverbs","bookSlug":"proverbs","chapter":20,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":19,"nextChapter":21,"totalChapters":31,"totalVerses":30},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoever provokes him to anger sins against his own soul."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"The just man walks in his integrity: his children are blessed after him."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"A king that sits in the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has made even both of them."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"It is naught, it is naught, said the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasts."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flatters with his lips."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Say not you, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save you."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Divers weights are an abomination to the LORD; and a false balance is not good."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"It is a snare to the man who devours that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"A wise king scatters the wicked, and brings the wheel over them."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upheld by mercy."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"The blueness of a wound cleans away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly."}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 20 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Proverbs 20](https://primebible.com/akjv/proverbs/20)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/proverbs/20 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}