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Proverbs 20:16

Verse 16 of 30. The 20th of 31 chapters in Proverbs, in Poetry and Wisdom.

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.

17Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

18Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!

19He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

20Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

Read Proverbs 20

World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.