Proverbs 23:15-27

¹⁵My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine;

¹⁶and my reins shall exult, when thy lips speak right things.

¹⁷Let not thy heart envy sinners, but be thou in the fear of Jehovah all the day;

¹⁸for surely there is a result, and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

¹⁹Thou, my son, hear and be wise, and direct thy heart in the way.

²⁰Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh.

²¹For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth 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; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence.

²⁴The father of a righteous man shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise son shall have joy of him:

²⁵let thy father and thy mother have joy, and let her that bore thee rejoice.

²⁶My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

²⁷For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.