Proverbs 23:24-33

²⁴The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.

²⁵Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.

²⁶My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.

²⁷For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.

²⁸Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.

²⁹Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?

³⁰Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.

³¹Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:

³²In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.

³³Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.