Proverbs 23:24-35 ▼

24 The father of the righteous rejoices greatly, || The begetter of the wise rejoices in him.

25 Your father and your mother rejoice, || Indeed, she bearing you is joyful.

26 Give, my son, your heart to me, || And let your eyes watch my ways.

27 For a harlot [is] a deep ditch, || And a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.

28 She also, as catching prey, lies in wait, || And she increases the treacherous among men.

29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaint? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

30 Those lingering by the wine, || Those going in to search out mixed wine.

31 Do not see wine when it shows itself red, || When it gives its color in the cup, || It goes up and down through the upright.

32 Its latter end—it bites as a serpent, || And it stings as a viper.

33 Your eyes see strange women, || And your heart speaks perverse things.

34 And you have been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, || And as one lying down on the top of a mast.

35 “They struck me, I have not been sick, || They beat me, I have not known. When I awake—I seek it yet again!”