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13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with the rod, he will not die. 14 You strike him with the rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol. 15 My son, if your heart is wise, my heart will be glad—even I. 16 And my kidneys will exult at the speaking of uprightness by your lips. 17 Do not let your heart be jealous of the sinners, but rather in the fear of YHWH all the day. 18 For surely there is a posterity, and your hope will not be cut off. 19 Listen you, my son, and be wise, and let your heart walk straight in the way. 20 Not Be among those getting drunk on wine, among those being gluttons of flesh to themelves. 21 For the drunkard and the glutton will be dispossessed, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags. 22 Listen to your father, this one begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old. 23 Acquire truth and do not sell it—wisdom, and discipline, and discernment. 24 The father of a righteous one will greatly rejoice, and the one begetting a wise son will be glad in him. 25 Let your father and your mother be glad, and let she who bore you rejoice. 26 My son, give your heart to me, and let your eyes delight in my ways. 27 For a prostitute is a deep pit, and a strange woman is a narrow well. 28 She also, like a robber, lies in wait, and she increases the treacherous ones among men. 29 To whom is woe? To whom is sorrow? To whom are quarrels? To whom is complaining? To whom are wounds without cause? To whom is dullness of eyes? 30 To those lingering over the wine, to those going in search of mixed drink! 31 Do not look at the wine when it is red, when it gives forth its eye in the cup—it goes down with smoothness! 32 Its end is like a serpent—it bites, and like a viper it stings. 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart will speak perverse things. 34 And you will become like one lying down in the heart of the sea, and like one lying down on the top of a mast: 35 “They struck me; I did not become weak. They beat me; I did not know it. When I awake, I will add to seek it again?” Proverbs 23:13-35, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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