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THE MESSAGE
Proverbs 20:1
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Wine is a mocker, beer is a brawler;
Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler; Whoever is let astray by them is not wise.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
Wine is a mocker, intoxicating drink a brawler, And whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise.
Wine and beer make people loud and uncontrolled; it is not wise to get drunk on them.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a riotous brawler; And whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise.
Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler; Whoever is let astray by them is not wise.
Wine is a mocker and strong drinke is raging: and whosoeuer is deceiued thereby, is not wise.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler,And whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
It isn't smart to get drunk! Drinking makes a fool of you and leads to fights.
Wine is a mocker, strong liquor a rowdy; anyone led astray by it is unwise.
Wine is a scorner, strong drink is raging; and whoso erreth thereby is not wise.
Wine and beer make people lose control; they get loud and stumble around. And that is foolish.
WINE is grievous, drunkenness is shameful; and whosoever drinks excessively is not wise.
Drinking too much makes you loud and foolish. It's stupid to get drunk.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and any who go astray by it are not wise.
Wine is a mocker, fermented drink is stirring, and each one straying by it is not wise.
Wyne is a voluptuous thinge, & drockennes causeth sedicion: who so delyteth therin, shal neuer be wyse.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.
Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is riotous; and whosoever reeleth thereby is not wise.
Wine is a mocker, strong drinke is raging: and whosoeuer is deceiued thereby, is not wise.
Wine maketh a man to be scornefull, & strong drinke causeth a man to be vnquiet: who so delighteth therin shall not be wyse.
Wine is an intemperate thing, and strong drink full of violence: but every fool is entangled with them.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; and whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.
Wiyn is a letcherouse thing and drunkenesse is ful of noise; who euere delitith in these, schal not be wijs.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whoever errs thereby is not wise.
Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whoever is deceived by it is not wise.
Wine is a mocker and strong drink is a brawler; whoever goes astray by them is not wise.
Wine is a mocker, Strong drink is a brawler, And whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
Wine produces mockers; alcohol leads to brawls. Those led astray by drink cannot be wise.
Wine makes people act in a foolish way. Strong drink starts fights. Whoever is fooled by it is not wise.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
Wine is, a scoffer, and strong drink, a brawler, every one therefore who erreth therein, is unwise.
Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness riotous: whosoever is delighted therewith, shall not be wise.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
Wine [is] a scorner -- strong drink [is] noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, And whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 23:29-35, Proverbs 31:4, Genesis 9:21-23, Genesis 19:31-36, 1 Samuel 25:36-38, 2 Samuel 11:13, 2 Samuel 13:28, 1 Kings 20:16-21, Isaiah 28:7, Hosea 4:11, Hosea 7:5, Habakkuk 2:15, Habakkuk 2:16, 1 Corinthians 6:10, Galatians 5:21, Ephesians 5:18
Reciprocal: Genesis 19:33 - drink Deuteronomy 21:20 - he is a glutton Esther 1:10 - the heart Psalms 94:9 - He that planted Proverbs 23:20 - not Proverbs 23:30 - tarry Ecclesiastes 2:3 - yet Ecclesiastes 10:16 - and Isaiah 5:11 - inflame Habakkuk 2:5 - he transgresseth
Cross-References
So Abram left Egypt and went back to the Negev, he and his wife and everything he owned, and Lot still with him. By now Abram was very rich, loaded with cattle and silver and gold.
Sarai, Abram's wife, hadn't yet produced a child. She had an Egyptian maid named Hagar. Sarai said to Abram, " God has not seen fit to let me have a child. Sleep with my maid. Maybe I can get a family from her." Abram agreed to do what Sarai said.
An angel of God found her beside a spring in the desert; it was the spring on the road to Shur. He said, "Hagar, maid of Sarai, what are you doing here?" She said, "I'm running away from Sarai my mistress."
That's how that desert spring got named "God-Alive-Sees-Me Spring." That spring is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.
God appeared to Abraham at the Oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent. It was the hottest part of the day. He looked up and saw three men standing. He ran from his tent to greet them and bowed before them.
Then Abimelech gave Sarah back to Abraham, and along with her sent sheep and cattle and servants, both male and female. He said, "My land is open to you; live wherever you wish."
Isaac was living in the Negev. He had just come back from a visit to Beer Lahai Roi. In the evening he went out into the field; while meditating he looked up and saw camels coming. When Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she got down from her camel and asked the servant, "Who is that man out in the field coming toward us?" "That is my master." She took her veil and covered herself.
There was a famine in the land, as bad as the famine during the time of Abraham. And Isaac went down to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, in Gerar.
So Isaac stayed put in Gerar.
Then Abimelech came to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his advisor and Phicol the head of his troops. Isaac asked them, "Why did you come to me? You hate me; you threw me out of your country."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging,.... Wine deceives a man; it not only overcomes him before he is aware, but it promises him a pleasure which it does not give; but, on the contrary, excessive drinking gives him pain, and so mocks him; yea, it exposes him to reproach and disgrace, and to the mockery and derision of others; as well as it sets him to scoff at his companions, and even to mock at religion, and all that is good and serious; see Hosea 7:5; and strong drink not only disturbs the brain, and puts the spirits in a ferment, so that a man rages within, but it sets him a raving and quarrelling with his company, and everybody he meets with; such generally get into broils and contentions, and get woe, sorrow, and wounds, Proverbs 23:29. Aben Ezra gives this as the sense of the words,
"a man of wine''
(that is, one that is given to wine, a wine bibber), so Ben Melech,
"is a mocker, and he cries out for strong drink, that it may be given him;''
which is not a bad sense of the words.
and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise; whosoever gives himself to it, is not on his guard against it, but is overcome by it, does not act a wise but an unwise part: wine besots as well as deceives men. This may be applied to the wine of fornication, or to the false doctrine and superstition of the church of Rome; with which the nations of the earth are deceived and made drunk, and which puts them upon blaspheming God, deriding his people, and using cruelty to them,
Revelation 17:2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
“Wine” and “strong drink” are personified as themselves doing what they make men do. The latter (see Leviticus 10:9 note) is here, probably, the “palm-wine” of Syria.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XX
Against wine and strong drink. We should avoid contentions.
The sluggard. The righteous man. Weights and measures.
Tale-bearers. The wicked son. The wise king. The glory of
young men. The beauty of old men. The benefit of correction.
NOTES ON CHAP. XX
Verse Proverbs 20:1. Wine is a mocker — It deceives by its fragrance, intoxicates by its strength, and renders the intoxicated ridiculous.
Strong drink — שכר shechar, any strong fermented liquor, whether of the vine, date, or palm species.
