Sirach 31:24-26

Common English Bible

²⁴ The city will murmur about those
who are stingy with bread,
    giving accurate witness
    to the wickedness of such people.

²⁵ Don’t demonstrate your bravado
in wine drinking,
    because wine has destroyed many.
²⁶ A furnace tests the hardening of steel
when it’s dipped,^[a]
    so wine tests the heart
    when the arrogant quarrel.