Revised Version 1885

Proverbs 20:20-26 Revised Version 1885 (RV1885)

20. Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in the blackest 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: wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.

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

24. A man's goings are of the Lord; how then can man understand his way?

25. It is a snare to a man rashly to say, It is holy, and after vows to make inquiry.

26. A wise king winnoweth the wicked, and bringeth the threshing wheel over them.