Proverbs 23:21-33

²¹For men giving attention to drinks, and giving morsels together, shall be wasted, and napping shall be clothed with clothes rent.

²²Hear thy father, that begat thee; and despise not thy mother, when she is eld.

²³Buy thou truth, and do not thou sell wisdom, and doctrine, and understanding.

²⁴The father of a just or rightwise man joyeth full out with joy; he that begat a wise man, shall be glad in him.

²⁵Thy father and thy mother have joy, and he that begat thee, make full out joy.

²⁶My son, give thine heart to me, and thine eyes keep my ways.

²⁷For a whore is a deep ditch, and an alien woman, is a strait pit.

²⁸She setteth ambush in the way, as a thief; and shall add despisers in men, that is, shall multiply despisers of God among men.

²⁹To whom is woe? to whose father is woe? to whom be chidings? to whom be ditches? to whom be wounds without cause? to whom is putting out of eyes?

³⁰Whether not to them, that dwell in wine, and study to drink up all of cups?

³¹Behold thou not the wine, when it sparkleth, when the colour thereof shineth in a glass cup. It entereth sweetly,

³²but at the last it shall bite as an adder, and as a cockatrice it shall shed abroad venoms.

³³Thine eyes shall see strange women, and thy heart shall speak wayward things.