20 Wine is a mocker,(A) beer is a brawler;
whoever goes astray[a] because of them is not wise.

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Footnotes

  1. 20:1 Or whoever staggers

29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has conflicts? Who has complaints?
Who has wounds for no reason?(A)
Who has red eyes?
30 Those who linger over wine;
those who go looking for mixed wine.(B)

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22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine,
who are champions at pouring beer,(A)

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49 and starts to beat his fellow servants, and eats and drinks with drunkards,(A)

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The Need for Watchfulness

34 “Be on your guard,(A) so that your minds are not dulled[a] from carousing,[b] drunkenness,(B) and worries of life,(C) or that day will come on you unexpectedly(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 21:34 Lit your hearts are not weighed down
  2. 21:34 Or hangovers

13 Let us walk with decency,(A) as in the daytime: not in carousing and drunkenness;(B) not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarreling and jealousy.

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18 And don’t get drunk(A) with wine,(B) which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit:(C)

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