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The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 20, Verse 4

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[It is] an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
King James Version
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; [therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing.
American Standard Version
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
New English Translation
The sluggard will not plow during the planting season, so at harvest time he asks for grain but has nothing.
World English Bible
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall 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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine 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 his way, then he boasteth.