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Be not among heavy drinkers of wine, with gluttons, flesh to themselves,

for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe one with rags.

Who has woe, who sorrow? Who has contentions, who has babbling? Who has wounds without cause? Who has dullness of eyes?

Those who stay long at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine.

Do not look at the wine when it is red, when it gives its color in the cup, when it goes down smoothly,

at its last it bites like a snake, and it stings like an adder.

Your eyes shall look on strange women, and your heart shall speak perverse things;

yes, you shall be as one who lies down in the middle of the sea, or as he who lies on the top of a mast,

saying , They struck me! I was not sick! They beat me, yet I did not know. When I awaken I will add to it , I will still seek it.