Proverbs 23:23-35

²³Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

²⁴The father of the righteous will be greatly glad, and he that begetteth a wise child will have joy through him.

²⁵Let then thy father and thy mother rejoice, and let her that hath born thee be glad.

²⁶Give, my son, thy heart unto me, and let thy eyes watch my ways.

²⁷For a harlot is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow well.

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

²⁹Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath quarrels? who hath complaints? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

³⁰They that tarry late over the wine: they that come to seek for mixed drink.

³¹Do not look on the wine when it looketh red, when it giveth its color in the cup, when it glideth down so readily.

³²At the last it will bite like a serpent, and like a basilisk will it sting.

³³Thy eyes will see strange forms, and thy heart will speak perverse things.

³⁴And thou wilt be like one that lieth down in the heart of the sea, or as he that lieth on the top of a mast.

³⁵“They smote me, but I suffered no pain; they struck me hard, but I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will continue to seek it again.”