Proverbs 20:12
Verse 12 of 30. The 20th of 31 chapters in Proverbs, in Poetry and Wisdom.
8A king who sits on the throne of judgment scatters away all evil with his eyes.
9Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin”?
10Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.
11Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.
12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has made even both of them.
13Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
14“It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
15There is gold and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.
16Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.
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