Proverbs 23:2-27

²And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.

³Be not desirous of his dainties: For they are deceitful meat.

⁴Labour not to be rich: Cease from thine own wisdom.

⁵Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

⁶Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainty meats:

⁷For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.

⁸The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words.

⁹Speak not in the ears of a fool: For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

¹⁰Remove not the old landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

¹¹For their Redeemer is mighty; He shall plead their cause with thee.

¹²Apply thine heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge.

¹³Withhold not correction from the child: For if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

¹⁴Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from hell.

¹⁵My son, if thine heart be wise, My heart shall rejoice, even mine.

¹⁶Yea, my reins shall rejoice, When thy lips speak right things.

¹⁷Let not thine heart envy sinners: But be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long.

¹⁸For surely there is an end; And thine expectation shall not be cut off.

¹⁹Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thine heart in the way.

²⁰Be not amongst winebibbers; Amongst riotous eaters of flesh:

²¹For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: And drowsiness shall 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; Also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

²⁴The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: And he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

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

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

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