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therefore in the summer, and it shall not be given him.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:4 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 5, "text": "Counsel in the heart of a man is like deep water: but a wise man will draw it out.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:5 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 6, "text": "Many men are called merciful: but who shall find a faithful man?", "citation": "Proverbs 20:6 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 7, "text": "The just that walketh in his simplicity, shall leave behind him blessed children.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:7 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 8, "text": "The king, that sitteth on the throne of judgment, scattereth away all evil with his look.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:8 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 9, "text": "Who can say: My heart is clean, I am pure from sin?", "citation": "Proverbs 20:9 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 10, "text": "Diverse weights and diverse measures, both are abominable before God.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:10 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 11, "text": "By his inclinations a child is known, if his works be clean and right.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:11 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 12, "text": "The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made them both.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:12 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 13, "text": "Love not sleep, lest poverty oppress thee: open thy eyes, and be filled with bread.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:13 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 14, "text": "It is naught, it is naught, saith every buyer: and when he is gone away, then he will boast.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:14 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 15, "text": "There is gold and a multitude of jewels: but the lips of knowledge are a precious vessel.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:15 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 16, "text": "Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:16 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 17, "text": "The bread of lying is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:17 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 18, "text": "Designs are strengthened by counsels: and wars are to be managed by governments.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:18 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 19, "text": "Meddle not with him that revealeth secrets, and walketh deceitfully, and openeth wide his lips.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:19 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 20, "text": "He that curseth his father, and mother, his lamp shall be put out in the midst of darkness.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:20 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 21, "text": "The inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, in the end shall be without a blessing.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:21 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 22, "text": "Say not: I will return evil: wait for the Lord, and he will deliver thee.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:22 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 23, "text": "Diverse weights are an abomination before the Lord: a deceitful balance is not good.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:23 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 24, "text": "The steps of men are guided by the Lord: but who is the man that can understand his own way?", "citation": "Proverbs 20:24 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 25, "text": "It is ruin to a man to devour holy ones, and after vows to retract.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:25 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 26, "text": "A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth over them the wheel.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:26 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 27, "text": "The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, which searcheth all the hidden things of the bowels.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:27 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 28, "text": "Mercy and truth preserve the king, and his throne is strengthened by clemency.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:28 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 29, "text": "The joy of young men is their strength: and the dignity of old men, their grey hairs.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:29 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 30, "text": "The blueness of a wound shall wipe away evils: and stripes in the more inward parts of the belly.", "citation": "Proverbs 20:30 (Douay-Rheims)" } ] }