20 Wine is a mocker; beer a carouser.
    Those it leads astray won’t become wise.

¹⁹ Listen, my child, and be wise!
    Keep your mind straight on the path.
²⁰ Don’t hang out with those who get drunk on wine
    or those who eat too much meat,
²¹     because drunks and gluttons will be impoverished;
    their stupor will clothe them in rags.

²⁹ Who is suffering?
    Who is uneasy?
    Who has arguments?
    Who has complaints?
    Who has unnecessary wounds?
    Who has glazed eyes?—
³⁰         those who linger over wine;
        those who go looking for mixed wine.
³¹ Don’t look at wine when it is red,
    when it sparkles in the cup,
    going down smoothly.
³² In the end, it bites like a snake
    and poisons like a viper.
³³ Your eyes will see strange things,
    and your heart will speak distorted words.
³⁴ You will be like one who lies down while out on the sea^[a]
    or one who lies on top of a mast.
³⁵ “Though hit, I feel no pain;
    though beaten up, I don’t know anything about it.
When I wake up,
    I’ll look for wine again!”