Proverbs 23:20-22
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
20 Do not join with wine bibbers,
nor with those who glut themselves on meat.
21 For drunkards and gluttons come to poverty,
and lazing about clothes one in rags.
22 [a]Listen to your father who begot you,
do not despise your mother when she is old.
Footnotes
- 23:22–23 Father and mother are associated with truth and wisdom. One should no more rid oneself of truth and wisdom than rid oneself of one’s parents, who are their source.
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