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King James Bible |
Youngs Literal Translation
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| 20:1 |
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. |
Wine `is' a scorner -- strong drink `is' noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise. |
| 20:2 |
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul. |
The fear of a king `is' a growl as of a young lion, He who is causing him to be wroth is wronging his soul. |
| 20:3 |
It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. |
An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth. |
| 20:4 |
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. |
Because of winter the slothful plougheth not, He asketh in harvest, and there is nothing. |
| 20:5 |
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. |
Counsel in the heart of a man `is' deep water, And a man of understanding draweth it up. |
| 20:6 |
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? |
A multitude of men proclaim each his kindness, And a man of stedfastness who doth find? |
| 20:7 |
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him. |
The righteous is walking habitually in his integrity, O the happiness of his sons after him! |
| 20:8 |
A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes. |
A king sitting on a throne of judgment, Is scattering with his eyes all evil, |
| 20:9 |
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? |
Who saith, `I have purified my heart, I have been cleansed from my sin?' |
| 20:10 |
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD. |
A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them `are' an abomination to Jehovah. |
| 20:11 |
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. |
Even by his actions a youth maketh himself known, Whether his work be pure or upright. |
| 20:12 |
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them. |
A hearing ear, and a seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them. |
| 20:13 |
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. |
Love not sleep, lest thou become poor, Open thine eyes -- be satisfied `with' bread. |
| 20:14 |
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. |
`Bad, bad,' saith the buyer, And going his way then he boasteth himself. |
| 20:15 |
There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel. |
Substance, gold, and a multitude of rubies, Yea, a precious vessel, `are' lips of knowledge. |
| 20:16 |
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. |
Take his garment when a stranger hath been surety, And for strangers pledge it. |
| 20:17 |
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. |
Sweet to a man `is' the bread of falsehood, And afterwards is his mouth filled `with' gravel. |
| 20:18 |
Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war. |
Purposes by counsel thou dost establish, And with plans make thou war. |
| 20:19 |
He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips. |
A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver `with' his lips make not thyself surety. |
| 20:20 |
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. |
Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness. |
| 20:21 |
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. |
An inheritance gotten wrongly at first, Even its latter end is not blessed. |
| 20:22 |
Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee. |
Do not say, `I recompense evil,' Wait for Jehovah, and He delivereth thee. |
| 20:23 |
Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good. |
An abomination to Jehovah `are' a stone and a stone, And balances of deceit `are' not good. |
| 20:24 |
Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way? |
From Jehovah `are' the steps of a man, And man -- how understandeth he his way? |
| 20:25 |
It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry. |
A snare to a man `is' he hath swallowed a holy thing, And after vows to make inquiry. |
| 20:26 |
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them. |
A wise king is scattering the wicked, And turneth back on them the wheel. |
| 20:27 |
The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly. |
The breath of man `is' a lamp of Jehovah, Searching all the inner parts of the heart. |
| 20:28 |
Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy. |
Kindness and truth keep a king, And he hath supported by kindness his throne. |
| 20:29 |
The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head. |
The beauty of young men is their strength, And the honour of old men is grey hairs. |
| 20:30 |
The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly. |
The bandages of a wound thou removest with the evil, Also the plagues of the inner parts of the heart! |
