Proverbs 23:17-34

¹⁷Let not thine heart bee enuious against sinners: but let it bee in the feare of the Lord continually.

¹⁸For surely there is an ende, and thy hope shall not be cut off.

¹⁹O thou my sonne, heare, and bee wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

²⁰Keepe not company with drunkards, nor with gluttons.

²¹For the drunkard and the glutton shall bee poore, and the sleeper shalbe clothed with ragges.

²²Obey thy father that hath begotten thee, and despise not thy mother when she is olde.

²³Bye the trueth, but sell it not: likewise wisdome, and instruction, and vnderstanding.

²⁴The father of the righteous shall greatly reioyce, and hee that begetteth a wise childe, shall haue ioy of him.

²⁵Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall reioyce.

²⁶My sonne, giue mee thine heart, and let thine eyes delite in my wayes.

²⁷For a whore is as a deepe ditche, and a strange woman is as a narrowe pitte.

²⁸Also she lyeth in wait as for a praye, and she increaseth the transgressers among men.

²⁹To whome is woe? to whome is sorowe? to whom is strife? to whom is murmuring? to whom are woundes without cause? and to whome is the rednesse of the eyes?

³⁰Euen to them that tarie long at the wine, to them that goe, and seeke mixt wine.

³¹Looke not thou vpon the wine, when it is red, and when it sheweth his colour in the cup, or goeth downe pleasantly.

³²In the ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise.

³³Thine eyes shall looke vpon strange women, and thine heart shall speake lewde things.

³⁴And thou shalt bee as one that sleepeth in the middes of the sea, and as hee that sleepeth in the toppe of the maste.