¹⁹ You, my son, listen and ^(A)be wise,
And ^(B)direct your heart in the way.
²⁰ Do not be with ^(C)heavy drinkers of wine,
Or with ^(D)gluttonous eaters of meat;
²¹ For the ^(E)heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty,
And ^(F)drowsiness will clothe them with rags.

²⁹ Who has ^(A)woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has contentions? Who has complaining?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who has redness of eyes?
³⁰ Those who ^(B)linger long over wine,
Those who go to search out ^(C)mixed wine.
³¹ Do not look on the wine when it glistens red,
When it ^[a]sparkles in the cup,
When it ^(D)goes down smoothly;
³² At the end—like a serpent it ^(E)bites,
And like a ^(F)viper it stings.
³³ Your eyes will see strange things
And your heart will ^(G)speak perverse things.
³⁴ And you will be like one who lies down in the heart of the sea,
Or like one who lies down on the top of a ^[b]mast.
³⁵ “They ^(H)struck me, but I did not become ^[c]ill;
They beat me, but I did not know it.
When shall I awake?
I will ^(I)seek yet another.”