Proverbs
Chapters 20:3-9
Amplified Bible
3It is an honor for a man to cease from strife and keep aloof from it, but every fool will quarrel.
4The sluggard does not plow when winter sets in; therefore he begs in harvest and has nothing.
5Counsel in the heart of man is like water in a deep well, but a man of understanding draws it out. [Prov. 18:4.]
6Many a man proclaims his own loving-kindness and goodness, but a faithful man who can find?
7The righteous man walks in his integrity; blessed (happy, fortunate, enviable) are his children after him.
8A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows out all evil [like chaff] with his eyes.
9Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? [I Kings 8:46; II Chron. 6:36; Job 9:30; 14:4; Ps. 51:5; I John 1:8.]