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.
³¹ Do not gaze at wine when it is red,
    when it sparkles in the cup,
    when it goes down smoothly!
³² In the end it bites like a snake
    and poisons like a viper.
³³ Your eyes will see strange sights,
    and your mind will imagine confusing things.
³⁴ You will be like one sleeping on the high seas,
    lying on top of the rigging.
³⁵ “They hit me,” you will say, “but I’m not hurt!
    They beat me, but I don’t feel it!
When will I wake up
    so I can find another drink?”^(B)

²⁰ Do not join those who drink too much wine^(A)
    or gorge themselves on meat,
²¹ for drunkards and gluttons become poor,^(B)
    and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

¹ Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger
    or discipline me in your wrath.^(A)
2 Your arrows^(B) have pierced me,
    and your hand has come down on me.
³ Because of your wrath there is no health^(C) in my body;
    there is no soundness in my bones^(D) because of my sin.
⁴ My guilt has overwhelmed^(E) me
    like a burden too heavy to bear.^(F)