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Wine is a mocker, intoxicating drink a brawler, And whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

One who loves pleasure will become a poor person; One who loves wine and oil will not become rich.

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine, Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe one with rags.

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has red eyes?

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

Those who linger long over wine, Those who go to taste mixed wine.

They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

Do not look at wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it goes down smoothly;

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

In the end it bites like a snake And stings like a viper.

At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

Your eyes will see strange things And your mind will say perverse things.

Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

And you will be like one who lies down in the middle of the sea, Or like one who lies down on the top of a mast.

Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

"They struck me, but I did not become ill; They beat me, but I did not know it. When will I awake? I will seek another drink."

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

It is not for kings, Lemuel, It is not for kings to drink wine, Or for rulers to desire intoxicating drink,

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

Otherwise they will drink and forget what is decreed, And pervert the rights of all the needy.

Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

Give intoxicating drink to one who is perishing, And wine to one whose life is bitter.

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

Let him drink and forget his poverty, And remember his trouble no more.

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.