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| 20:1 | 酒能使人亵慢，浓酒使人喧囔。凡因酒错误的，就无智慧。
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. |
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| 20:2 | 王的威吓，如同狮子吼叫。惹动他怒的，是自害己命。
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul. |
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| 20:3 | 远离纷争，是人的尊荣。愚妄人都爱争闹。
It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. |
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| 20:4 | 懒惰人因冬寒不肯耕种。到收割的时候，他必讨饭，而无所得。
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing. |
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| 20:5 | 人心怀藏谋略，好像深水。惟明哲人，才能汲引出来。
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. |
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| 20:6 | 人多述说自己的仁慈。但忠信人谁能遇着呢？
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? |
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| 20:7 | 行为纯正的义人，他的子孙，是有福的。
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him. |
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| 20:8 | 王坐在审判的位上，以眼目驱散诸恶。
A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes. |
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| 20:9 | 谁能说，我洁净了我的心？我脱净了我的罪？
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? |
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| 20:10 | 两样的砝码，两样的升斗，都为耶和华所憎恶。
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD. |
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| 20:11 | 孩童的动作，是清洁，是正直，都显明他的本性。
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. |
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| 20:12 | 能听的耳，能看的眼，都是耶和华所造的。
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them. |
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| 20:13 | 不要贪睡，免致贫穷。眼要睁开，你就吃饱。
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. |
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| 20:14 | 买物的说，不好，不好。及至买去，他便自夸。
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. |
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| 20:15 | 有金子和许多珍珠（或作“红宝石”），惟有知识的嘴，乃为贵重的珍宝。
There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel. |
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| 20:16 | 谁为生人作保，就拿谁的衣服。谁为外人作保，谁就要承当。
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman. |
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| 20:17 | 以虚谎而得的食物，人觉甘甜。但后来他的口，必充满尘沙。
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. |
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| 20:18 | 计谋都凭筹算立定。打仗要凭智谋。
Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war. |
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| 20:19 | 往来传舌的，泄漏密事。大张嘴的，不可与他结交。
He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips. |
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| 20:20 | 咒骂父母的，他的灯必灭，变为漆黑的黑暗。
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. |
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| 20:21 | 起初速得的产业，终久却不为福。
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. |
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| 20:22 | 你不要说，我要以恶报恶。要等候耶和华，他必拯救你。
Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee. |
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| 20:23 | 两样的砝码，为耶和华所憎恶。诡诈的天平，也为不善。
Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good. |
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| 20:24 | 人的脚步，为耶和华所定。人岂能明白自己的路呢？
Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way? |
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| 20:25 | 人冒失说，这是圣物，许愿之后才查问，就是自陷网罗。
It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry. |
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| 20:26 | 智慧的王，簸散恶人，用碌碡滚轧他们。
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them. |
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| 20:27 | 人的灵是耶和华的灯，鉴察人的心腹。
The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly. |
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| 20:28 | 王因仁慈和诚实，得以保全他的国位，也因仁慈立稳。
Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy. |
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| 20:29 | 强壮乃少年的荣耀。白发为老年人的尊荣。
The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head. |
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| 20:30 | 鞭伤除净人的罪恶。责打（能入）人的心腹。
The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly. |
