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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.

Listen, my son, and be wise, And direct your heart in the way.

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

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.