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The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 23, Verse 24

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23
Buy the truth, and sell [it] not; [also] wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
King James Version
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise [child] shall have joy of him.
American Standard Version
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.
New English Translation
The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; whoever fathers a wise child will have joy in him.
World English Bible
The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
25
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
26
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
27
For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.
28
She also lieth in wait as [for] a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
29
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
30
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
31
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright.
32
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
33
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
34
Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.