¹⁹ Listen, my son, 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 one with rags.

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