23. Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
24. The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.
25. Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.
26. My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways.
27. For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.
28. Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.
29. Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?
30. They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine.
31. Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly: