Proverbs 20:1

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20 ^(A)Wine is a mocker, ^(B)strong drink a brawler,
and whoever ^(C)is led astray by it is not wise.^[a]

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Proverbs 20:1 Or will not become wise

Proverbs 20:1 in all English translations

Proverbs 21:17

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¹⁷Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man;
he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

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Proverbs 21:17 in all English translations

Proverbs 23:20-21

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²⁰Be not among ^(A)drunkards^[a]
or among ^(B)gluttonous eaters of meat,
²¹for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,
and ^(C)slumber will clothe them with rags.

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Proverbs 23:20 Hebrew those who drink too much wine

Proverbs 23:29-35

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²⁹^(A)Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
    Who has strife? Who has complaining?
Who has ^(B)wounds without cause?
    Who has ^(C)redness of eyes?
³⁰Those who ^(D)tarry long over wine;
    those who go to try ^(E)mixed wine.
³¹Do not look at wine when it is red,
    when it sparkles in the cup
    and goes down smoothly.
³²In the end it ^(F)bites like a serpent
    and stings like an adder.
³³Your eyes will see strange things,
    and your heart utter ^(G)perverse things.
³⁴You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea,
    like one who lies on the top of a mast.^[a]
³⁵“They ^(H)struck me,” you will say,^[b] “but I was not hurt;
    they beat me, but I did not feel it.
When shall I awake?
    I ^(I)must have another drink.”

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Proverbs 23:34 Or of the rigging
Proverbs 23:35 Hebrew lacks you will say

Proverbs 31:4-7

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⁴^(A)It is not for kings, O Lemuel,
    it is not for kings ^(B)to drink wine,
    or for rulers to take ^(C)strong drink,
⁵lest they drink and forget what has been decreed
    and ^(D)pervert the rights of all the afflicted.
⁶Give strong drink to the one who ^(E)is perishing,
    and wine to ^(F)those in bitter distress;^[a]
⁷^(G)let them drink and forget their poverty
    and remember their misery no more.