Proverbs 23:15-35

15My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine; 16and my reins shall exult, when thy lips speak right things. 17Let not thy heart envy sinners, but [be thou] in the fear of Jehovah all the day; 18for surely there is a result, and thine expectation shall not be cut off. 19Thou, my son, hear and be wise, and direct thy heart in the way. 20Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh. 21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth with rags. 22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. 23Buy the truth, and sell it not; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence. 24The father of a righteous [man] shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise [son] shall have joy of him: 25let thy father and thy mother have joy, and let her that bore thee rejoice. 26My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. 27For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. 28She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men. 29Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who complaining? Who wounds without cause? Who redness of eyes? 30— They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to try mixed wine. 31Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkleth in the cup, and goeth down smoothly: 32at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. 33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward things; 34and thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, and as he that lieth down upon the top of a mast: 35— “They have smitten me, [and] I am not sore; they have beaten me, [and] I knew it not. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.”