Proverbs 23:25-35

²⁵Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.

²⁶My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways.

²⁷For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

²⁸Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.

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

³⁰They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine.

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

³²At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.

³³Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse 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.

³⁵They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.