Proverbs 31:1-8

¹My words have been spoken by God—the oracular answer of a king, whom his mother instructed.

²What will you keep, my son, what? the words of God. My firstborn son, I speak to you: what? son of my womb? what? son of my vows?

³Give not your wealth to women, nor your mind and living to remorse. Do all things with counsel: drink wine with counsel.

⁴Princes are prone to anger: let them then not drink wine:

⁵lest they drink, and forget wisdom, and be not able to judge the poor rightly.

⁶Give strong drink to those that are in sorrow, and the wine to drink to those in pain:

⁷that they may forget their poverty, and may not remember their troubles any more.

⁸Open your mouth with the word of God, and judge all fairly.