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The morsel [which] thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words (23:8) Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words (23:9) Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: (23:10) For their redeemer [is] mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee (23:11) Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge (23:12) Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die (23:13) Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell (23:14) My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine (23:15) Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things (23:16) Let not thine heart envy sinners: but [be thou] in the fear of the Lord all the day long (23:17) For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off (23:18) Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way (23:19) Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: (23:20) For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags (23:21) Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old (23:22) Buy the truth, and sell [it] not; [also] wisdom, and instruction, and understanding (23:23) The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise [child] shall have joy of him (23:24) Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice (23:25) My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways (23:26) For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit (23:27) She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men (23:28) Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? (23:29) They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine (23:30) Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright (23:31) At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder (23:32) Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things (23:33) Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast (23:34) They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again
(23:35)
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