³ Don’t give your strength to women,
    nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
⁴ It is not for kings, Lemuel,
    it is not for kings to drink wine,
    nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’
⁵ lest they drink, and forget the law,
    and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.
⁶ Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish,
    and wine to the bitter in soul.
⁷ Let him drink, and forget his poverty,
    and remember his misery no more.
⁸ Open your mouth for the mute,
    in the cause of all who are left desolate.
⁹ Open your mouth, judge righteously,
    and serve justice to the poor and needy.”