^29 (A)Who has woe?
Who has sorrow?
Who has contentions?
Who has complaints?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who ^(B)has redness of eyes?
^30 (C)Those who linger long at the wine,
Those who go in search of ^(D)mixed wine.
³¹ Do not look on the wine when it is red,
When it sparkles in the cup,
When it ^[a]swirls around smoothly;
³² At the last it bites like a serpent,
And stings like a viper.
³³ Your eyes will see strange things,
And your heart will utter perverse things.
³⁴ Yes, you will be like one who lies down in the ^[b]midst of the sea,
Or like one who lies at the top of the mast, saying:
³⁵ “They^(E) have struck me, but I was not hurt;
They have beaten me, but I did not feel it.
When shall ^(F)I awake, that I may seek another drink?”

^4 (A)It is not for kings, O Lemuel,
It is not for kings to drink wine,
Nor for princes intoxicating drink;
^5 (B)Lest they drink and forget the law,
And pervert the justice of all ^[a]the afflicted.
^6 (C)Give strong drink to him who is perishing,
And wine to those who are bitter of heart.
⁷ Let him drink and forget his poverty,
And remember his misery no more.

⁷ But they also ^(A)have erred through wine,
And through intoxicating drink are out of the way;
^(B)The priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink,
They are swallowed up by wine,
They are out of the way through intoxicating drink;
They err in vision, they stumble in judgment.