dn31:14.1 “Some are just drinking buddies,
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dn31:14.2 some call you their dear, dear friend;
dn31:14.3 but a friend in times of need
dn31:14.4 is a comrade indeed.
dn31:14.5 Sleeping late, adultery,
dn31:14.6 making enemies, harmfulness,
dn31:14.7 bad friends, and avarice:
dn31:14.8 these six grounds ruin a person.
dn31:14.9 With bad friends, bad comrades,
dn31:14.10 bad behavior and alms-resort,
dn31:14.11 a man falls to ruin
dn31:14.12 in both this world and the next.
dn31:14.13 Dice, women, toddy, song and dance;
dn31:14.14 sleeping by day and roaming at night;
dn31:14.15 bad friends, and avarice:
dn31:14.16 these six grounds ruin a person.
dn31:14.17 They play dice and drink beer,
dn31:14.18 and consort with women loved by others.
dn31:14.19 Associating with the worse, not the better,
dn31:14.20 they diminish like the waning moon.
dn31:14.21 One who is broke and destitute due to toddy,
dn31:14.22 thirsty, drinking in the bar,
dn31:14.23 drowning in debt,
dn31:14.24 will quickly lose their way.
dn31:14.25 When you’re in the habit of sleeping late,
dn31:14.26 seeing night as time to rise,
dn31:14.27 and always getting drunk,
dn31:14.28 you can’t keep up the household life.
dn31:14.29 ‘Too cold, too hot,
dn31:14.30 too late,’ they say.
dn31:14.31 When the young neglect their work like this,
dn31:14.32 riches pass them by.
dn31:14.33 But one who considers heat and cold
dn31:14.34 as no more than blades of grass—
dn31:14.35 he does his duties as a man,
dn31:14.36 and happiness never fails.”