16. Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak right things.
17. Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord all the day long.
18. For surely there is a latter end [a future and a reward], and your hope and expectation shall not be cut off.
19. Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way [of the Lord].
20. Do not associate with winebibbers; be not among them nor among gluttonous eaters of meat, [Isa. 5:22; Luke 21:34; Rom. 13:13; Eph. 5:18.]
21. For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
22. Hearken to your father, who begot you, and despise not your mother when she is old.
23. Buy the truth and sell it not; not only that, but also get discernment and judgment, instruction and understanding.
24. The father of the [uncompromisingly] righteous (the upright, in right standing with God) shall greatly rejoice, and he who becomes the father of a wise child shall have joy in him.
25. Let your father and your mother be glad, and let her who bore you rejoice.
26. My son, give me your heart and let your eyes observe and delight in my ways,
27. For a harlot is a deep ditch, and a loose woman is a narrow pit.
28. She also lies in wait as a robber or as one waits for prey, and she increases the treacherous among men.
29. Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness and dimness of eyes?