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20 Do not be among drinkers of wine,
    among gluttonous eaters of their meat.[a]
21 For the drunkard and gluttonous, they will become poor,
    and with rags, drowsiness will clothe them.
22 Listen to your father—he who gave you life,[b]
    and do not despise your mother when[c] she is old.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:20 Literally “meat for them”
  2. Proverbs 23:22 Literally “caused you to be born”
  3. Proverbs 23:22 Or “for, because”