Proverbs 23:25-35

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

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

²⁷For a strange house is a vessel full of holes; And a strange well is narrow.

²⁸For such a one shall perish suddenly; And every transgressor shall be cut off.

²⁹Who has woe? who trouble? who has quarrels? And who vexations and disputes? Who has bruises without a cause? Whose eyes are livid?

³⁰Are not those of them that stay long at wine? Are not those of them that haunt the places where banquets are? Be not drunk with wine; but converse with just men, And converse with them openly.

³¹For if thou shouldest set thine eyes on bowls and cups, Thou shalt afterward go more naked than a pestle.

³²But at last such a one stretches himself out as one smitten by a serpent, And venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent.

³³Whenever thine eyes shall behold a strange woman, Then thy mouth shall speak perverse things.

³⁴And thou shalt lie as in the midst of the sea, And as a pilot in a great storm.

³⁵And thou shalt say, They smote me, and I was not pained; And they mocked me, and I knew it not: When will it be morning, that I may go and seek those with whom I may go in company?