Holy Bible - Revised Standard Version(RSV)

23:1	When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you;
23:2	and put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.
23:3	Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.
23:4	Do not toil to acquire wealth;be wise enough to desist.
23:5	When your eyes light upon it, it is gone;for suddenly it takes to itself wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.
23:6	Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy;do not desire his delicacies;
23:7	for he is like one who is inwardly reckoning. 'Eat and drink!' he says to you;but his heart is not with you.
23:8	You will vomit up the morsels which you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words.
23:9	Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
23:10	Do not remove an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless;
23:11	for their Redeemer is strong;he will plead their cause against you.
23:12	Apply your mind to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.
23:13	Do not withhold discipline from a child;if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.
23:14	If you beat him with the rod you will save his life from Sheol.
23:15	My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.
23:16	My soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
23:17	Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the LORD all the day.
23:18	Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
23:19	Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way.
23:20	Be not among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat;
23:21	for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
23:22	Hearken 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;buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
23:24	The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;he who begets a wise son will be glad in him.
23:25	Let your father and mother be glad, let her who bore you rejoice.
23:26	My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
23:27	For a harlot is a deep pit;an adventuress is a narrow well.
23:28	She lies in wait like a robber and increases the faithless among men.
23:29	Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
23:30	Those who tarry long over wine, those who go to try mixed wine.
23:31	Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
23:32	At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
23:33	Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things.
23:34	You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast.
23:35	'They struck me,' you will say, 'but I was not hurt;they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I will seek another drink.'