Proverbs 23:16-26

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.