Holy Bible - New American Standard Version(NASV)

23:1	When you sit down to dine with a ruler, Consider carefully what is before you,
23:2	And put a knife to your throat If you are a man of great appetite.
23:3	Do not desire his delicacies, For it is deceptive food.
23:4	Do not weary yourself to gain wealth, Cease from your consideration of it.
23:5	When you set your eyes on it, it is gone. For wealth certainly makes itself wings Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.
23:6	Do not eat the bread of a selfish man, Or desire his delicacies;
23:7	For as he thinks within himself, so he is. He says to you, "Eat and drink!" But his heart is not with you.
23:8	You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten, And waste your compliments.
23:9	Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
23:10	Do not move the ancient boundary Or go into the fields of the fatherless,
23:11	For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their case against you.
23:12	Apply your heart to discipline And your ears to words of knowledge.
23:13	Do not hold back discipline from the child, Although you strike him with the rod, he will not die.
23:14	You shall strike him with the rod And rescue his soul from Sheol.
23:15	My son, if your heart is wise, My own heart also will be glad;
23:16	And my inmost being will rejoice When your lips speak what is right.
23:17	Do not let your heart envy sinners, But live in the fear of the Lord always.
23:18	Surely there is a future, And your hope will not be cut off.
23:19	Listen, my son, and be wise, And direct your heart in the way.
23:20	Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine, Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;
23:21	For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe one with rags.
23:22	Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.
23:23	Buy truth, and do not sell it, Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.
23:24	The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, And he who sires a wise son will be glad in him.
23:25	Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her rejoice who gave birth to you.
23:26	Give me your heart, my son, And let your eyes delight in my ways.
23:27	For a harlot is a deep pit And an adulterous woman is a narrow well.
23:28	Surely she lurks as a robber, And increases the faithless among men.
23:29	Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
23:30	Those who linger long over wine, Those who go to taste mixed wine.
23:31	Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it goes down smoothly;
23:32	At the last it bites like a serpent And stings like a viper.
23:33	Your eyes will see strange things And your mind will utter perverse things.
23:34	And you will be like one who lies down in the middle of the sea, Or like one who lies down on the top of a mast.
23:35	"They struck me, but I did not become ill; They beat me, but I did not know it. When shall I awake? I will seek another drink."