¹⁷ A man of want is he who loves pleasure;
    he who loves wine and oil^[a] will not become rich.

²⁰ Do not be among drinkers of wine,
    among gluttonous eaters of their meat.^[a]
21 For the drunkard and gluttonous, they will become poor,
    and with rags, drowsiness will clothe them.

²⁹ To whom is woe? To whom is sorrow? To whom are quarrels? To whom is complaint?
    To whom are wounds without cause? To whom is redness of the eyes?
³⁰ To those who linger over wine,
    to those who come to try mixed wine.
³¹ Do not look at wine when it is red,
    when it sparkles^[a] on the cup,
    going down smoothly.
³² In the end,^[b] it will bite like a serpent,
    and it will sting like an adder.
³³ Your eyes will see strange things,
    and your heart^[c] will speak perverse things.
³⁴ And you will be like him who lies down in the heart of the sea,
    and like him who lies down on top of a mast.
³⁵ “They struck me; I was not hurt. They beat me; I did not know it.
    When I will awake, I will continue; I will seek it again.”

⁴ It is not for the kings, O Lemuel;
    drinking wine is not for the kings,
    nor is strong drink for rulers.
⁵ Or else he will drink and forget what has been decreed,
    and he will pervert the rights^[a] of all the afflicted.^[b]
6 Give strong drink to him who is perishing,
    and wine to those in bitter distress.^[c]
7 He will drink and forget his poverty,
    and his misery he will not remember any more.