20 ¶ Wine makes a mocker, and beer a reveler, and whoever errs concerning them shall never be wise.

¹⁷ ¶ He that loves pleasure shall be a poor man; he that loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

²⁰ Do not be among those who are drunk with wine; nor among gluttonous eaters of food;

²¹ for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall cause them to wear rags.

²⁹ ¶ For who shall be the woe? for who shall be the woe? for who contention? for who quarrels? for who the wounds without cause? who shall have redness of eyes?

³⁰ For those that tarry long at the wine; those that go to seek mixed wine.

³¹ Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it gives its colour in the cup, it goes down smoothly.

³² At the last it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.

³³ Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

³⁴ Yea, thou shalt be as he that lies down in the midst of the sea or as he that sleeps at the rudder.

³⁵ They have stricken me, thou shalt say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not; when I shall awake, I will seek it yet again.

⁴ It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor is beer for princes

⁵ lest they drink and forget the law and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

⁶ Give beer unto him that is ready to perish and wine unto those that have heavy hearts.

⁷ They drink and forget their need and remember their misery no more.