Some Advice to Keep in Mind

Proverbs Chapter 20 consists of 30 verses,

verses 7-23 are listed below:

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.

13.Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

14.It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

15.There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

16.Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

17.Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

18.Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

19.He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

20.Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

21.An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

22.Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.

23.Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

Reference Information:

divers = eben = a stone weight, differing measure

divers = weepah = an ephah measure, diverse measure

Reference Scriptures:
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;-Proverbs 1:1

The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.-Matthew 1:1...And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;-Matthew 1:6...And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.-Matthew 1:16

And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,-Luke 3:23...Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.-Luke 3:38

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