Proverbs 23:20–34

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.

²⁷For a harlot is a deep ditch;

And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

²⁸Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber,

And increaseth the treacherous among men.

²⁹Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions?

Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause?

Who hath redness of eyes?

³⁰They that tarry long at the wine;

They that go to seek out mixed wine.

³¹Look not thou upon the wine when it is red,

When it sparkleth in the cup,

When it goeth down smoothly:

³²At the last it biteth like a serpent,

And stingeth like an adder.

³³Thine eyes shall behold strange things,

And thy heart shall utter perverse things.

³⁴Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea,

Or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.