Proverbs 23:29-35

New International Reader's Version

²⁹ Who has trouble? Who has sorrow?
    Who argues? Who has problems?
    Who has wounds for no reason? Who has red eyes?
³⁰ Those who spend too much time with wine.
    Or those who like to taste wine mixed with spices.
³¹ Don’t look at wine when it is red.
    Don’t look at it when it bubbles in the cup.
    And don’t look at it when it goes down smoothly.
³² In the end it bites like a snake.
    It bites like a poisonous serpent.
³³ Your eyes will see strange sights.
    Your mind will imagine weird things.
³⁴ You will feel like someone sleeping on the ocean.
    You will think you are lying among the ropes in a boat.
³⁵ “They hit me,” you will say. “But I’m not hurt!
    They beat me. But I don’t feel it!
When will I wake up
    so I can find another drink?”