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The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 20, Verse 5

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The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; [therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing.
King James Version
Counsel in the heart of man [is like] deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
American Standard Version
Counsel in the heart of man is [like] deep water; But a man of understanding will draw it out.
New English Translation
Counsel in a person’s heart is like deep water, but an understanding person draws it out.
World English Bible
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
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Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?
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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.
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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.
13
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.
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There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge [are] a precious jewel.