Proverbs 20

1Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.Cross-references: Gen 9:21 · Gen 19:31 · 1Sam 25:36 · 2Sam 11:13 · 2Sam 13:28 · 1Ki 20:16 · +11 more

2The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.Cross-references: Num 16:38 · 1Ki 2:23 · Prov 8:36 · Prov 16:14 · Prov 19:12 · Eccl 10:4 · +3 more

3It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.Cross-references: 2Ki 14:9 · Prov 14:17 · Prov 14:29 · Prov 16:32 · Prov 17:14 · Prov 18:6 · +7 more

4The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.Cross-references: Prov 6:10 · Prov 10:4 · Prov 13:4 · Prov 19:15 · Prov 19:24 · Prov 24:34 · +4 more

5Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.Cross-references: Ps 64:6 · Prov 18:4 · 1Cor 2:11

6Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?Cross-references: Ps 12:1 · Prov 25:14 · Prov 27:2 · Eccl 7:28 · Jer 5:1 · Mic 7:2 · +7 more

7A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.Cross-references: Gen 17:7 · Ps 15:2 · Ps 26:1 · Ps 26:11 · Ps 37:26 · Ps 112:2 · +10 more

8A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.Cross-references: 1Sam 23:3 · 2Sam 23:4 · Ps 72:4 · Ps 92:9 · Ps 99:4 · Ps 101:6 · +5 more

9Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin”?Cross-references: 1Ki 8:46 · 2Chr 6:36 · Job 14:4 · Job 15:14 · Job 25:4 · Ps 51:5 · +4 more

10Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.Cross-references: Lev 19:35 · Deut 7:25 · Deut 25:13 · Prov 11:1 · Prov 16:11 · Prov 20:23 · +3 more

11Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.Cross-references: Ps 51:5 · Ps 58:3 · Prov 21:8 · Prov 22:15 · Matt 7:16 · Luke 1:15 · +3 more

12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.Cross-references: Ex 4:11 · Ps 94:9 · Ps 119:18 · Matt 13:13 · Acts 26:18 · Eph 1:17

13Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.Cross-references: Prov 6:9 · Prov 10:4 · Prov 12:11 · Prov 13:4 · Prov 19:15 · Prov 24:30 · +6 more

14“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.Cross-references: Eccl 1:10 · Hos 12:7 · 1Thess 4:6

15There is gold and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.Cross-references: Job 28:12 · Prov 3:15 · Prov 8:11 · Prov 10:20 · Prov 15:7 · Prov 15:23 · +7 more

16Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.Cross-references: Ex 22:26 · Prov 2:16 · Prov 5:3 · Prov 7:5 · Prov 7:10 · Prov 11:15 · +3 more

17Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.Cross-references: Gen 3:6 · Job 20:12 · Prov 4:17 · Prov 9:17 · Eccl 11:9 · Lam 3:15 · +1 more

18Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!Cross-references: Judg 1:1 · Judg 9:29 · Judg 20:7 · Judg 20:18 · Judg 20:23 · Judg 20:26 · +7 more

19He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.Cross-references: Lev 19:16 · Prov 11:13 · Prov 13:3 · Prov 16:29 · Prov 18:8 · Prov 24:21 · +2 more

20Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.Cross-references: Ex 20:12 · Ex 21:17 · Lev 20:9 · Deut 27:16 · Job 18:5 · Job 18:18 · +9 more

21An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning won’t be blessed in the end.Cross-references: Job 27:16 · Prov 13:22 · Prov 23:4 · Prov 28:8 · Prov 28:20 · Prov 28:22 · +4 more

22Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.Cross-references: Deut 32:35 · 2Sam 16:12 · Ps 27:14 · Ps 37:34 · Prov 17:13 · Prov 24:29 · +8 more

23Yahweh detests differing weights, and dishonest scales are not pleasing.Cross-references: Prov 11:1 · Prov 20:10 · Ezek 45:10 · Hos 12:7 · Amos 8:5

24A man’s steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?Cross-references: Ps 25:4 · Ps 25:12 · Ps 37:23 · Prov 14:8 · Prov 16:9 · Isa 10:6 · +3 more

25It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, then later to consider his vows.Cross-references: Lev 5:15 · Lev 22:10 · Lev 27:9 · Lev 27:30 · Num 30:2 · Prov 18:7 · +3 more

26A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them.Cross-references: 2Sam 4:9 · 2Sam 12:31 · Ps 101:5 · Prov 20:8 · Isa 28:27

27The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts.Cross-references: Gen 2:7 · Job 32:8 · Prov 20:30 · Rom 2:15 · 1Cor 2:11 · 2Cor 4:2 · +2 more

28Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love.Cross-references: Ps 21:7 · Ps 26:1 · Ps 61:7 · Ps 101:1 · Prov 16:6 · Prov 16:12 · +2 more

29The glory of young men is their strength. The splendor of old men is their gray hair.Cross-references: Lev 19:32 · Prov 16:31 · Jer 9:23 · 1John 2:14

30Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.Cross-references: Prov 19:25 · Prov 22:15 · Isa 27:9 · Isa 53:5 · Heb 12:10