Proverbs 23:29-35

Contemporary English Version

²⁹ Who is always in trouble?
    Who argues and fights?
Who has cuts and bruises?
    Whose eyes are red?
³⁰ Everyone who stays up late,
    having just one more drink.
³¹ Don't even look
at that colorful stuff
    bubbling up in the glass!
It goes down so easily,
³² but later it bites
    like a poisonous snake.
³³ You will see weird things,
and your mind
    will play tricks on you.
³⁴ You will feel tossed about
like someone trying to sleep
    on a ship in a storm.
³⁵ You will be bruised all over,
without even remembering
    how it all happened.
And you will lie awake asking,
“When will morning come,
    so I can drink some more?”