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ULT PRO Chapter 20

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20 The wine is a mocker, intoxicating drink is a brawler,

and everyone who staggers by it is not wise.

2 The terror of a king is a growling like the young lion;

one who infuriates him is one who wrongs his life.

3 Honor for a man is cessation from strife,

but every fool breaks out.

4 A lazy one will not plow from winter,

and he begs in the harvest but there is nothing.

5 Counsel in the heart of a man is deep waters,

and a man of understanding will draw it out.

6 Many a man proclaims, each man, his covenant faithfulness,

but a man of faithful acts, who can find?

7 A righteous one walks about in his integrity;

happy are his sons after him.

8 A king who sits on the throne of judgment

is one who winnows with his eyes all evil.

9 Who can say, “I have made my heart pure,

I am clean from my sin”?

10 Stone and stone, ephah and ephah,

are an abomination to Yahweh, even the two of them.

11 Even a young man will make himself known by his deeds,

if pure and if upright is his behavior.

12 A hearing ear and a seeing eye,

Yahweh made even the two of them.

13 Do not love sleep lest you become impoverished;

open your eyes, be satisfied with bread.

14 “Bad! Bad!” says the buyer,

but when he departs on his way, then he praises himself.

15 There is gold and an abundance of corals,

but lips of knowledge are a vessel of preciousness.

16 Take his garment when he has pledged for a stranger,

and on behalf of a foreign woman hold it in pledge.

17 Sweet to a man is bread of falsehood,

but afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.

18 Plans by counsel are established,

and by guidance make war.

19 One who goes about as a gossip reveals a secret,

and with one who opens his lips do not associate yourself.

20 One who curses his father and his mother,

his lamp will be extinguished in the pupil of darkness.

21 An inheritance gained quickly in the beginning,

its end will not be blessed.

22 Do not say, “I will repay evil.”

Wait for Yahweh and he will save you.

23 Stone and stone are an abomination to Yahweh,

and scales of deceit are not good.

24 From Yahweh are the steps of a strong man,

so how can a man understand his way?

25 A snare of a man: he says rashly, “It is holy,”

and after vows considers.

26 A wise king is one who winnows wicked ones,

and he brings back a wheel over them.

27 The breath of a man is the lamp of Yahweh,

searching all the rooms of the belly.

28 Covenant faithfulness and trustworthiness guard a king,

and his throne is sustained by covenant faithfulness.

29 The splendor of young men is their strength

and the adornment of old ones is gray hair.

30 Blows of a wound cleanse away evil

and strikes of the rooms of the belly.

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