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Proverbs - ch 23 v 21 - 35
- For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.
- Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.
- Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.
- The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.
- Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.
- My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.
- For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.
- Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.
- Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?
- Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.
- Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:
- In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.
- Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.
- Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support.
- They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.
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