Proverbs 23:19-21

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁹Hear, my child, and be wise,
    and direct your mind in the way.
²⁰Do not be among winebibbers,
    or among gluttonous eaters of meat;
²¹for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,
    and drowsiness will clothe them with rags.

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