22 (A)Listen to your father who gave you life,
    (B)and do not despise your mother when she is old.
23 (C)Buy truth, and do not sell it;
    buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
24 (D)The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;
    he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.
25 (E)Let your father and mother be glad;
    let (F)her who bore you rejoice.

26 My son, give me your heart,
    and let your eyes observe[a] my ways.
27 For a prostitute is (G)a deep pit;
    (H)an adulteress[b] is a narrow (I)well.
28 (J)She lies in wait like a robber
    and increases the traitors among mankind.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:26 Or delight in
  2. Proverbs 23:27 Hebrew a foreign woman

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