Chapter 20
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
23:29-35 31:4 Genesis 9:21-23 19:31-36 1 Samuel 25:36-38 2 Samuel 11:13 2 Samuel 13:28 1 Kings 20:16-21 Isaiah 28:7 Hosea 4:11 7:5 Habakkuk 2:15,16 1 Corinthians 6:10 Galatians 5:21 Ephesians 5:18
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
fear
16:14,15 19:12 Ecclesiastes 10:4 Hosea 11:10 Amos 3:8
sinneth
It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
an
14:29 16:32 17:14 19:11 25:8-10 Ephesians 1:6-8 4:32 5:1
but
14:17 18:6 21:24 2 Kings 14:9 James 3:14 4:1
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
sluggard
cold
or, winter. therefore.
6:10,11 19:15 24:34 Matthew 25:3-10,24-28 2 Peter 1:5-11
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
18:4 Psalms 64:6 1 Corinthians 2:11
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
proclaim
25:14 27:2 Matthew 6:2 Luke 18:8,11,28 22:33 2 Corinthians 12:11
goodness
or, bounty. but.
Psalms 12:1 Ecclesiastes 7:28 Jeremiah 5:1 Micah 7:2 Luke 18:8 John 1:47
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
just
14:2 19:1 Psalms 15:2 26:1,11 Isaiah 33:15 Luke 1:6 2 Corinthians 1:12 Titus 2:11,12 3 John 1:3,4
his children
13:22 Genesis 17:7 Psalms 37:26 112:2 Jeremiah 32:39 Acts 2:39
A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
26 16:12 29:14 1 Samuel 23:3,4 2 Samuel 23:4 Psalms 72:4 92:9 99:4 101:6-8 Isaiah 32:1
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
1 Kings 8:46 2 Chronicles 6:36 Job 14:4 15:14 25:4 Psalms 51:5 Ecclesiastes 7:20 1 Corinthians 4:4 James 3:2 1 John 1:8-10
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Divers weights, and divers measures
Heb. a stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah.
both
23 11:1 16:11 Leviticus 19:35 Deuteronomy 25:13-15 Amos 8:4-7 Micah 6:10,11
abomination
Deuteronomy 7:25,26 Revelation 21:8
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
21:8 22:15 Psalms 51:5 58:3 Matthew 7:16 Luke 1:15,66 2:46,47 6:43,44
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
Exodus 4:11 Psalms 94:9 119:18 Matthew 13:13-16 Acts 26:18 Ephesians 1:17,18
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Love
6:9-11 10:4 12:11 13:4 19:15 24:30-34 Romans 12:11 2 Thessalonians 3:10
open
Jonah 1:6 Romans 13:11 1 Corinthians 15:34 Ephesians 5:14
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
It is naught
Ecclesiastes 1:10 Hosea 12:7,8 1 Thessalonians 4:6
There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
but
3:15 8:11 10:20,21 15:7,23 16:16,21,24 25:12 Job 28:12-19 Ecclesiastes 12:9-11 Romans 10:14,15 Ephesians 4:29
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
Take his
11:15 22:26,27 27:13 Exodus 22:26,27
a strange
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
deceit
Heb. lying, or falsehood.
is sweet
9:17,18 Genesis 3:6,7 Job 20:12-20 Ecclesiastes 11:9 Hebrews 11:25
his
Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
purpose
and
25:8 Judges 1:1,2 9:29 20:7,18,23,26-28 2 Samuel 2:26,27 2 Chronicles 25:17-23 Luke 14:31
He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
that goeth
11:13 18:8 26:20-22 Leviticus 19:16
meddle
flattereth
or, enticeth.
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
curseth
30:11,17 Exodus 20:12 21:17 Leviticus 20:9 Deuteronomy 27:16 Matthew 15:4 Mark 7:10-13
his
13:9 24:20 Job 18:5,6,18 Matthew 22:13 25:8 Jude 1:13
lamp
or, candle.
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
gotten
but
13:22 28:8 Job 27:16,17 Habakkuk 2:6 Zechariah 5:4 Malachi 2:2
Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
I
17:13 24:29 Deuteronomy 32:35 Romans 12:17-19 1 Thessalonians 5:15 1 Peter 3:9
wait
2 Samuel 16:12 Psalms 27:14 37:34 Isaiah 40:31 Lamentations 3:25,26 1 Peter 2:23 4:19
Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
weights
a false balance
Heb. balances of deceit.
Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
Man's
Psalms 37:23 Jeremiah 10:23 Daniel 5:23 Acts 17:28
how
14:8 16:9 Psalms 25:4,12 Isaiah 10:6,7
It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
a snare
18:7 Leviticus 5:15 22:10-15 27:30 Malachi 3:8-10
after
Leviticus 27:9,10,31 Numbers 30:2-16 Ecclesiastes 5:4-6 Matthew 5:33
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.
wise
8 2 Samuel 4:9-12 Psalms 101:5-8
bringeth
2 Samuel 12:31 Isaiah 28:27,28
The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
spirit
Genesis 2:7 Job 32:8 Romans 2:15 1 Corinthians 2:11 2 Corinthians 4:2-6 1 John 3:19-21
candle
or, lamp.
searching
Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.
Mercy
his
16:12 29:14 Psalms 21:7 26:1 Isaiah 16:5
The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
glory
the beauty
The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.
cleanseth away evil
Heb. is a purging medicine against evil. stripes.