Old Testament · Poetry and wisdom

Proverbs chapter 20

is a , makes you loud and reckless — anyone led astray by them has no wisdom.A king’s is like a lion’s roar — anyone who provokes him is .It’s to walk away from a fight. Only rush in and start one.A doesn’t in the right season, so at harvest time they look around and there’s nothing.A person’s real run deep like underground water, but someone with knows how to draw them out.Lots of people will tell you how they are — but who can actually find someone you can ?When a lives with , their kids are set up to thrive after them.A king sitting on his can all wrongdoing just by looking at what’s in front of him.Who can honestly say, “I’ve kept my clean — I’m free from all my ”? and — despises both of them.Even a child is known by their actions — whether what they do is and .The ear that hears and the eye that sees — made them both.Don’t love sleep or you’ll end up . Keep your eyes open and you’ll have plenty of food.“, bad deal!” the buyer complains — then walks away bragging about the bargain they got.There’s plenty of gold and rubies around, but lips that speak with — now that’s a .Take the of anyone who puts up for a stranger; hold it as collateral when they guarantee a foreigner’s debt.Food gained by tastes sweet at first, but eventually your mouth is full of .Plans succeed when you get good . Don’t go to war without .A goes around spilling secrets, so don’t get involved with someone who talks too much.If someone their father or mother, their in total darkness.An grabbed too quickly at the start won’t be something to celebrate in the end.Don’t say, “I’ll for that wrong.” Wait for — he’ll take care of it. despises dishonest weights, and are not right.A person’s are directed by — so how can anyone really understand their own path?It’s a to blurt out that something and only afterward start working out what you promised.A separates out the wicked and drives the over them.The human is ’s lamp — it searches through every of who we are. and protect a king — his throne is held up by loyal love.The of young men is their strength; the splendor of the old is their .Blows that wound wrongdoing, and beatings reach the of who we are.