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.