20 Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler.
Whoever is intoxicated by them is not wise.

¹⁹ Listen, my son, and be wise,
and keep your heart on the straight way.
²⁰ Do not be among those who drink too much wine,
or those who eat too much meat,
²¹ because a drunk and a glutton will become poor,
and drunken stupor dresses a person in rags.

²⁹ Who has trouble? Who has misery?
Who has quarrels? Who has complaints?
Who has wounds for no reason? Who has glazed eyes?
³⁰ Those who linger over wine,
those who go to search for mixed wine.
³¹ Do not look at wine when it is red,
when it sparkles in the cup,
when it goes down smoothly.
³² Later it bites like a snake,
and it strikes like a venomous viper.
³³ Your eyes will see strange things,
and your mind will say senseless things.
³⁴ You will be like someone who tries to sleep in the middle of the sea,
like someone who tries to sleep at the top of a ship’s mast.
³⁵ “They struck me, but I felt no pain.
They beat me, but I was not aware of it.
When will I wake up, so that I can try it again?”