{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Proverbs",
 "chapter": 20,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?"
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?"
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?"
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry."
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them."
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly."
  },
  {
   "v": 28,
   "t": "Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy."
  },
  {
   "v": 29,
   "t": "The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head."
  },
  {
   "v": 30,
   "t": "The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly."
  }
 ],
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