25 Let your (A)father and your mother be glad,
And let her rejoice who gave birth to you.

26 (B)Give me your heart, my son,
And let your eyes [a](C)delight in my ways.
27 For a prostitute is a (D)deep pit,
And a [b](E)strange woman is a narrow well.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:26 Another reading is observe
  2. Proverbs 23:27 Lit foreign

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