23. Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
24. The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begets a wise child shall have joy in him.
25. Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bore you shall rejoice.
26. My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
27. For a harlot is a deep ditch; and a seductress is a narrow well.
28. She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the unfaithful among men.
29. Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?
30. They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
31. Look not you upon the wine when it is red, when it gives its color in the cup, when it moves itself aright.
32. At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
33. Your eyes shall behold strange things, and your heart shall utter perverse things.