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19 ) Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide yours heart in the way.
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20 ) Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh:
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21 ) For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
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22 ) Hearken unto your father that brings forth you, and despise not your mother when she is old.
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23 ) Buy the truth, and sell it not, also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
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24 ) The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that bring forths a wise child shall have joy of him.
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25 ) Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bare you shall rejoice.
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26 ) My son, give me yours heart, and let yours eyes observe my ways.
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27 ) For a whore is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
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28 ) She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men.
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29 ) Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?
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30 ) They that tarry long at the wine, they that go to seek mixed wine.
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31 ) Look not you upon the wine when it is red, when it gives his colour in the cup, when it moves itself aright.
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32 ) At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
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33 ) Yours eyes shall behold strange women, and yours heart shall utter perverse things.
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34 ) Yea, you shall be as he that lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lies upon the top of a mast.
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35 ) They have stricken me, shall you 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.