Bible Verses About Young Men

A calamity to his father is a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Whoso is spoiling a father causeth a mother to flee, A son causing shame, and bringing confusion.

Cease, my son, to hear instruction--To err from sayings of knowledge.

The beauty of young men is their strength, And the honour of old men is grey hairs.

My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,

And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly.

Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But--in the fear of Jehovah all the day.

For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off.

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,

Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,

For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.

Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,

The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him.

Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.

Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.

For a harlot is a deep ditch, And a strange woman is a strait pit.

She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?

Those tarrying by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine.

See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright.

Its latter end--as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.

Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.

And thou hast been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on the top of a mast.

`They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake--I seek it yet again!'