Proverbs 23:15-35

15My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart also will be glad.

16Yes, my inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.

17Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be in the fear of Adonai.

18For surely there is a future, and your hope will never be cut off.

19Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the right way.

20Do not join those drinking too much wine or gorging on meat,

21for both drunkards and gluttons will be impoverished— grogginess will clothe them with rags.

22Listen to your father who begot you and do not despise your mother when she is old.

23Acquire truth and do not sell it, acquire wisdom, instruction and understanding.

24The father of a righteous one rejoices greatly. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

25Let your father and your mother be glad, let she who bore you rejoice!

26My son, give your heart to me, and let your eyes observe my ways.

27For a prostitute is a deep pit, an adulterous woman is a narrow pit.

28Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has fights? Who has complaining? Who has bruises for no reason? Who has red eyes?

30Those who linger long over wine, who go looking for mixed wine.

31Do not gaze at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it glides down smoothly.

32In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper.

33Your eyes will see strange things. Your heart will utter perverse things.

34Then you will be like one lying down in the heart of the sea, or sprawled on the top of a mast.

35“They hit me! But I was not hurt. They beat me up! But I did not feel it. When will I wake up? I will look for another drink.”