Proverbs 23:21-35

²¹For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

²²Hearken unto thy father that begot 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 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 bore thee rejoice.

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

²⁷For a harlot is a deep ditch; and an alien woman is a narrow pit.

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

²⁹Who crieth: 'Woe'? who: 'Alas'? who hath contentions? who hath raving? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

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

³¹Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it glideth down smoothly;

³²At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like a basilisk.

³³Thine eyes shall behold strange things, and thy heart shall utter confused things.

³⁴Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

³⁵'They have struck me, and I felt it not, they have beaten me, and I knew it not; when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.'