Sirach 31:24-26

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²⁴ The city complains of those who are stingy with food,
    and the testimony to their stinginess is accurate.^(A)

²⁵ Do not try to prove your strength by wine-drinking,
    for wine has destroyed many.^(B)
26 As the furnace tests the work of the smith,^[a]
    so wine tests hearts when the insolent quarrel.^(C)