Passage Resources Hebrew/Greek Your Content
Previous Next
Add parallel Print Page Options Listen to Proverbs 20:1-3
Close GNV

Proverbs 20:1-3
1599 Geneva Bible

20 1 Wine [a]is a mocker, and strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby, is not wise.

2 (A)The fear of the King is like the roaring of a lion: he that provoketh him unto anger [b]sinneth against his own soul.

3 It is a man’s honor to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 20:1 By wine here is meant him that is given to wine, and so by strong drink.
  2. Proverbs 20:2 Putteth his life in danger.
Listen to Proverbs 20:1-3
Close NIV

Proverbs 20:1-3
New International Version

20 Wine(A) is a mocker(B) and beer a brawler;
    whoever is led astray(C) by them is not wise.(D)

2 A king’s wrath strikes terror like the roar of a lion;(E)
    those who anger him forfeit their lives.(F)

3 It is to one’s honor to avoid strife,
    but every fool(G) is quick to quarrel.(H)

Read full chapter
Next
Proverbs 19
Proverbs 21
Next
dropdown
1599 Geneva Bible (GNV)

Geneva Bible, 1599 Edition. Published by Tolle Lege Press. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations in articles, reviews, and broadcasts.

The 1599 Geneva Bible - A publication of Tolle Lege Press
New International Version (NIV)

Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.

July Summer Surge

More on the NIV