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24 The father of a righteous man shall greatly rejoice; and he who begets a wise child shall be glad. 25 Your father and your mother shall rejoice in you; and the one who bore you shall be happy. 26 My son. give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways. 27 For a harlot is a deep pit; and a strange woman is a narrow well. 28 She destroys men suddenly, and increases iniquity among men. 29 Who has woe? Who has trouble? Who has contentions? Who has hardships? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? 30 Those who tarry long over the wine; and who search for a place of drinking. Be not drunken with wine, but converse with righteous men; walk and talk with them. 31 Do not look on the wine when it is red in the cup, but meditate on righteousness. 32 For at the last it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder. 33 When your eyes behold a strange woman, then your heart shall utter perverse things. 34 Yea, you shall be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as a sailor in a tempest. 35 They have beaten me, you shall say, but I did not suffer, they have mocked me, but I did not know it; when I shall awake sober, I will go and seek it yet again. Proverbs 23:24-35, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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