15My son, if thy heart be wise,

My heart will be glad, even mine:

16Yea, my heart will rejoice,

When thy lips speak right things.

17Let not thy heart envy sinners;

But be thou in the fear of Jehovah all the day long:

18For surely there is a reward;

And thy hope shall not be cut off.

19Hear thou, my son, and be wise,

And guide thy heart in the way.

20Be not among winebibbers,

Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:

21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty;

And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee,

And despise not thy mother when she is old.

23Buy the truth, and sell it not;

Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

24The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;

And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.

25Let thy father and thy mother be glad,

And let her that bare thee rejoice.

26My son, give me thy heart;

And let thine eyes delight in my ways.