Proverbs 23:19-35

Listen, my son, and be wise, and direct your soul along the way. Do not be willing to be in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in the carousings of those who gather to feed on flesh. For those who waste time drinking, and who surrender themselves to symbols, will be consumed. And those who sleep will be clothed in rags. Listen to your father, who conceived you. And do not despise your mother, when she is old. Purchase truth, and do not sell wisdom, or doctrine, or understanding. The father of the just exults in gladness; he who has conceived the wise will rejoice in him. Let your father and your mother be joyful, and may she who conceived you exult. My son, offer me your heart, and let your eyes keep to my ways. For a loose woman is a deep pit, and a foreign woman is a constricted well. She lies in wait along the way like a robber. And the incautious one whom she sees, she will put to death. Who has woe? Whose father has woe? Who has quarrels? Who falls into pits? Who has wounds without cause? Who has watery eyes? Is it not those who linger over wine, and who strive to be drinking from their cups? Do not gaze into the wine when it turns gold, when its color shines in the glass. It enters pleasantly, but in the end, it will bite like a snake, and it will spread poison like a king of snakes. Your eyes will see women who are outsiders, and your heart will utter perversities. And you will be like someone sleeping in the middle of the sea, and like a pilot, fast asleep, who has lost his hold on the helm. And you will say: "They have beaten me, but I did not feel pain. They have dragged me, and I did not realize it. When will I awaken and find more wine?"