11 Woe(A) to those who rise early in the morning
    to run after their drinks,
who stay up late at night
    till they are inflamed with wine.(B)

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11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

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Saying 19

29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
    Who has strife? Who has complaints?
    Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
30 Those who linger over wine,(A)
    who go to sample bowls of mixed wine.

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

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

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13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness,(A) not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.(B)

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13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

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22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine(A)
    and champions at mixing drinks,(B)

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22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

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20 Wine(A) is a mocker(B) and beer a brawler;
    whoever is led astray(C) by them is not wise.(D)

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

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16 Woe to the land whose king was a servant[a](A)
    and whose princes feast in the morning.
17 Blessed is the land whose king is of noble birth
    and whose princes eat at a proper time—
    for strength and not for drunkenness.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 10:16 Or king is a child

16 Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

17 Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

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And these also stagger(A) from wine(B)
    and reel(C) from beer:
Priests(D) and prophets(E) stagger from beer
    and are befuddled with wine;
they reel from beer,
    they stagger when seeing visions,(F)
    they stumble when rendering decisions.
All the tables are covered with vomit(G)
    and there is not a spot without filth.

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But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

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21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like.(A) I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.(B)

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21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

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10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers(A) will inherit the kingdom of God.

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10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

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34 “Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life,(A) and that day will close on you suddenly(B) like a trap.

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34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

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On the day of the festival of our king
    the princes become inflamed with wine,(A)
    and he joins hands with the mockers.(B)
Their hearts are like an oven;(C)
    they approach him with intrigue.
Their passion smolders all night;
    in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

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In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

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Woe to the Leaders of Ephraim and Judah

28 Woe(A) to that wreath, the pride of Ephraim’s(B) drunkards,
    to the fading flower, his glorious beauty,
set on the head of a fertile valley(C)
    to that city, the pride of those laid low by wine!(D)

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28 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

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So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep,(A) but let us be awake(B) and sober.(C) For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.(D)

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Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

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