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The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 20, Verse 2

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1
Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
King James Version
The fear of a king [is] as the roaring of a lion: [whoso] provoketh him to anger sinneth [against] his own soul.
American Standard Version
The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: He that provoketh him to anger sinneth [against] his own life.
New English Translation
The king’s terrifying anger is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him sins against himself.
World English Bible
The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.
3
[It is] an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
4
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; [therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing.
5
Counsel in the heart of man [is like] deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
6
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
7
The just [man] walketh in his integrity: his children [are] blessed after him.
8
A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
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 abomination to the LORD.
11
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work [be] pure, and whether [it be] right.
12
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.