17 Let not your heart (A)envy sinners,
    but continue in (B)the fear of the Lord all the day.
18 Surely (C)there is a future,
    and your (D)hope will not be cut off.

19 Hear, my son, and (E)be wise,
    and (F)direct your heart in the way.
20 Be not among (G)drunkards[a]
    or among (H)gluttonous eaters of meat,
21 for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,
    and (I)slumber will clothe them with rags.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:20 Hebrew those who drink too much wine

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