Proverbs 23:21-34

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.

²⁸She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men.

²⁹Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who complaining? Who wounds without cause? Who redness of eyes?

³⁰— They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to try mixed wine.

³¹Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkleth in the cup, and goeth down smoothly:

³²at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

³³Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward things;

³⁴and thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, and as he that lieth down upon the top of a mast: