箴言 31:6

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

要把烈酒給將要滅亡的人喝；把酒給心裡愁苦的人喝；

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
可 以 把 浓 酒 给 将 亡 的 人 喝 ， 把 清 酒 给 苦 心 的 人 喝 ，

Contextual Overview

¹ These are the words of King Lemuel, the message his mother taught him: ² "My son, I gave birth to you. You are the son I prayed for. ³ Don't waste your strength on women or your time on those who ruin kings. ⁴ "Kings should not drink wine, Lemuel, and rulers should not desire beer. ⁵ If they drink, they might forget the law and keep the needy from getting their rights. ⁶ Give beer to people who are dying and wine to those who are sad. ⁷ Let them drink and forget their need and remember their misery no more. ⁸ "Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; defend the rights of all those who have nothing. ⁹ Speak up and judge fairly, and defend the rights of the poor and needy."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

strong: Psalms 104:15, 1 Timothy 5:23

of heavy hearts: Heb. bitter of soul, 1 Samuel 1:10, 1 Samuel 30:6, 2 Kings 4:27, *marg.

Reciprocal: Genesis 43:34 - were merry Judges 9:13 - cheereth 1 Samuel 22:2 - discontented 2 Samuel 16:2 - that such Job 3:20 - the bitter Job 29:13 - ready Proverbs 23:20 - not Isaiah 24:11 - a crying Jeremiah 16:7 - cup Zechariah 10:7 - and their Luke 14:13 - call Luke 22:18 - the fruit

Cross-References

Genesis 30:29
Jacob answered, "You know that I have worked hard for you, and your flocks have grown while I cared for them.

Genesis 31:5
He said to them, "I have seen that your father is not as friendly with me as he used to be, but the God of my father has been with me.

Genesis 31:8
When Laban said, ‘You can have all the speckled animals as your pay,' all the animals gave birth to speckled young ones. But when he said, ‘You can have all the streaked animals as your pay,' all the flocks gave birth to streaked babies.

Genesis 31:9
So God has taken the animals away from your father and has given them to me.

Genesis 31:10
"I had a dream during the season when the flocks were mating. I saw that the only male goats who were mating were streaked, speckled, or spotted.

Genesis 31:22
Three days later Laban learned that Jacob had run away,

Genesis 31:25
So Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had made his camp in the mountains, so Laban and his relatives set up their camp in the mountains of Gilead.

Genesis 31:38
I have worked for you now for twenty years. During all that time none of the lambs and kids died during birth, and I have not eaten any of the male sheep from your flocks.

Genesis 31:42
But the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac, was with me. Otherwise, you would have sent me away with nothing. But he saw the trouble I had and the hard work I did, and last night he corrected you."

1 Peter 2:18
Slaves, yield to the authority of your masters with all respect, not only those who are good and kind, but also those who are dishonest.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish,.... Thou, O Lemuel, and other kings and judges, rather than drink strong drink yourselves, least to excess; give it out of your great abundance and liberality to poor persons in starving circumstances, who must perish, unless relieved; it will do them good, moderately used; and should they drink too freely, which they ought not, yet it would not be attended with such bad consequences as if kings and princes should;

and wine to those that be of heavy heart; of melancholy dispositions, under gloomy apprehensions of things; pressed with the weight of their affliction and poverty: or, "bitter in soul" i; such as God has dealt bitterly with, as Naomi says was her case, and therefore called her own name Marah, which signifies bitter; of such a sorrowful spirit, and one thus bitter in soul, was Hannah; and so Job, and others; persons in great affliction and distress, to whom life itself is bitter; see Ruth 1:20; now wine to such is very exhilarating and cheering; see Judges 9:13.

i למרי נפש "his qui amaro sunt animo", V. L. Pagninus, Tigurine version: "amaris animo", Montanus, Junius Tremellius "amaris animus", Vatablus, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The true purpose of the power of wine over man’s mind and body, as a restorative and remedial agent. Compare the margin reference. The same thought showed itself in the Jewish practice of giving a cup of wine to mourners, and (as in the history of the crucifixion) to criminals at their execution.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 31:6. Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish — We have already seen, that inebriating drinks were mercifully given to condemned criminals, to render them less sensible of the torture they endured in dying. This is what was offered to our Lord; but he refused it. Psalms 104:15.