American Standard Version of 1901
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Hear thou, my son, and be wise,And guide thy heart in the way.
Be not among winebibbers,Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty;And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee,And despise not thy mother when she is old.
Buy the truth, and sell it not;Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.
Let thy father and thy mother be glad,And let her that bare thee rejoice.
My son, give me thy heart;And let thine eyes {Another reading is, observe.}delight in my ways.
For a harlot is a deep ditch;And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.
Yea, she lieth in wait {Or, as for a prey}as a robber,And increaseth the treacherous among men.