19. You, my child, hear and be wise, and direct your heart on the road.
20. Do not be among drinkers of wine, among gluttonous eaters of their meat.
21. For the drunkard and gluttonous, they will become poor, and with rags, drowsiness will clothe them.
22. Listen to your father—he who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
23. Buy truth and do not sell it, wisdom and instruction and understanding.
24. The father of the righteous will surely rejoice; he who bears a wise person will be happy with him.
25. May your father and your mother be glad, and may she who bore you rejoice.
26. My child, may you give your heart to me, and may your eyes delight in my ways.
27. For a deep pit is a prostitute, and a narrow well is an adulteress.
28. She is also like a robber lying in wait, and the faithless among mankind she increases.
29. To whom is woe? To whom is sorrow? To whom are quarrels? To whom is complaint? To whom are wounds without cause? To whom is redness of the eyes?
30. To those who linger over wine, to those who come to try mixed wine.
31. Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles on the cup, going down smoothly.
32. In the end, it will bite like a serpent, and it will sting like an adder.
33. Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart will speak perverse things.
34. And you will be like him who lies down in the heart of the sea, and like him who lies down on top of a mast.
35. “They struck me; I was not hurt. They beat me; I did not know it. When I will awake, I will continue; I will seek it again.”