¹⁹ Hear, my son, and be wise;
    and guide your heart in the way.
²⁰ Do not be among winebibbers,
    among riotous eaters of meat;
²¹ for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,
    and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

²⁹ Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
    Who has contentions? Who has babbling?
    Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
³⁰ Those who tarry long at the wine,
    those who go to seek mixed wine.
³¹ Do not look on the wine when it is red,
    when it sparkles in the cup,
    when it 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 as he who lies down in the midst of the sea,
    or as he who lies upon the top of a mast.
³⁵ “They have stricken me,” you will say, “and I was not sick;
    they have beaten me, and I did not feel it.
When will I awake?
    I will seek it yet again.”