¹⁹ You, my child, hear and be wise,
    and direct your heart^[a] on the road.
²⁰ Do not be among drinkers of wine,
    among gluttonous eaters of their meat.^[b]
21 For the drunkard and gluttonous, they will become poor,
    and with rags, drowsiness will clothe them.

²⁹ To whom is woe? To whom is sorrow? To whom are quarrels? To whom is complaint?
    To whom are wounds without cause? To whom is redness of the eyes?
³⁰ To those who linger over wine,
    to those who come to try mixed wine.
³¹ Do not look at wine when it is red,
    when it sparkles^[a] on the cup,
    going down smoothly.
³² In the end,^[b] it will bite like a serpent,
    and it will sting like an adder.
³³ Your eyes will see strange things,
    and your heart^[c] will speak perverse things.
³⁴ And you will be like him who lies down in the heart of the sea,
    and like him who lies down on top of a mast.
³⁵ “They struck me; I was not hurt. They beat me; I did not know it.
    When I will awake, I will continue; I will seek it again.”