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Ezra Chapter 20

1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is

2 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh

3 It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool

4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall

5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of

6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful

8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all

9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

10 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike

11 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure,

12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even

13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and

14 It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone

15 There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of

16 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a

17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth

18 Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice

19 He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore

20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put

21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the

22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and

23 Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false

24 Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his

26 A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over

27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the

28 Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by

29 The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old

30 The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the