25. Let thy father, and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee.
26. My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.
27. For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
28. She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill.
29. Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
30. Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink of their cups.
31. Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly,
32. But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.
33. Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.
34. And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast asleep, when the stern is lost.
35. And thou shalt say: They have beaten me, but I was not sensible of pain: they drew me, and I felt not: when shall I awake, and find wine again?