Noah Webster Bible

Proverbs 19

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Chapter 20

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  Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived by it is not wise.  

 

 

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  The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoever provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.  

 

 

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  It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.  

 

 

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  The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.  

 

 

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  Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.  

 

 

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  Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?  

 

 

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  The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.  

 

 

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  A king that sitteth on the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.  

 

 

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

 

 

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10


 

  Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.  

 

 

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  Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.  

 

 

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  The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.  

 

 

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13


 

  Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thy eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.  

 

 

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  It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone, then he boasteth.  

 

 

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  There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.  

 

 

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  Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.  

 

 

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17


 

  Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.  

 

 

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18


 

  Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.  

 

 

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19


 

  He that goeth about as a tale-bearer revealeth secrets; therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.  

 

 

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20


 

  Whoever curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.  

 

 

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21


 

  An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end of it shall not be blessed.  

 

 

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  Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.  

 

 

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  Divers weights are an abomination to the LORD; and a false balance is not good.  

 

 

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24


 

  Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?  

 

 

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  It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make inquiry.  

 

 

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  A wise king scatterreth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.  

 

 

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  The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.  

 

 

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28


 

  Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upheld by mercy.  

 

 

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29


 

  The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.  

 

 

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  The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.  

 

 

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Proverbs 21

 

 

 

 

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