20 ¹ Wine ^[a]is a mocker, and strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby, is not wise.

¹⁹ O thou my son, hear, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the ^[a]way.

²⁰ Keep not company with ^[b]drunkards, nor with ^[c]gluttons.

²¹ For the drunkard and the glutton shall be poor, and the sleeper shall be clothed with rags.

²⁹ To whom is woe? to whom is sorrow? to whom is strife? to whom is murmuring? to whom are wounds without cause? and to whom is the redness of the eyes?

³⁰ Even to them that tarry long at the wine, to them that go, ^[a]and seek mixed wine.

³¹ Look not thou upon the wine, when it is red, and when it showeth his color in the cup, or goeth down pleasantly.

³² In the end thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrice.

³³ Thine ^[b]eyes shall look upon strange women, and thine heart shall speak lewd things.

³⁴ And thou shalt be as one that sleepeth in the midst of the ^[c]sea, and as he that sleepeth in the top of the mast.

³⁵ They have stricken me, shalt thou say, but I was not sick: they have beaten me, but I knew not, when I awoke: therefore will I ^[d]seek it yet still.