Proverbs 23:20-25

Tree of Life Version

²⁰ Do not join those drinking too much wine
or gorging on meat,
²¹ for both drunkards and gluttons will be impoverished—
grogginess will clothe them with rags.

²² Listen to your father who begot you
and do not despise your mother when she is old.
²³ Acquire truth and do not sell it,
acquire wisdom, instruction and understanding.
²⁴ The father of a righteous one rejoices greatly.
Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
²⁵ Let your father and your mother be glad,
let she who bore you rejoice!