Proverbs 22:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁰ Have not I written unto thee excellent things Of counsels and knowledge;

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²⁰ Have not I written to thee excellent things In counsels and knowledge,

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²⁰ Have I not written to you [long ago] excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

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²⁰ Have not I written unto thee excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,

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²⁰ Haven’t I written for you thirty sayings full of advice and knowledge?

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²⁰ Behold, I have written it for you in three ways, and with meditations and knowledge,

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Hear, for I will speak excellent things; And the opening of my lips shall be right things.

Though I write for him my law in ten thousand precepts, they are counted as a strange thing.

The words of the LORD are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, Purified seven times.

The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written uprightly, even words of truth.