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Proverbs - ch 23 v 21 - 35
- For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; and drowsiness clotheth with rags.
- Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
- Buy the truth, and sell it not; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence.
- The father of a righteous man shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise son shall have joy of him:
- let thy father and thy mother have joy, and let her that bore thee rejoice.
- My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
- For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
- She also lieth in wait as a robber, and increaseth the treacherous among men.
- Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who complaining? Who wounds without cause? Who redness of eyes?
- -- They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to try mixed wine.
- Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkleth in the cup, and goeth down smoothly:
- at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
- Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward things;
- and 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:
- -- ''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.''
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