Proverbs 31:4

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

A! Lemuel, do not thou give wine to kings; for no privacy there is, where drunkenness reigneth.

Cross References

1 Kings 16:9

And Zimri, his servant, duke of the half part of his knights, rebelled against him; soothly Elah was in Tirzah, and drank and was drunken in the house of Arza, prefect of Tirzah.

1 Kings 20:12

And it was done, when Benhadad had heard this word, he drank, and also the kings, in shadowing places; and he said to his servants, Encompass ye the city. And they encompassed it.

Esther 1:10

Therefore in the seventh day, when the king was gladder than before, and when he was hot of wine after full much drinking, he commanded to Mehuman, and to Biztha, and to Harbona, and to Bigtha, and to Zethar, and to Abagtha, and to Carcas, seven honest and chaste servants, the which served in his sight,

Esther 3:15

And the couriers, that were sent forth, hasted to [ful] fill the command-ment of the king; and anon the behest of the king was hanged up in the city of Susa, while the king and Haman made a feast, and all the Jews wept, that were in that city.

Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a lecherous thing, and drunkenness is full of noise; whoever delighteth in these, shall not be wise.

Proverbs 23:34

And thou shalt be as a man sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a governor asleeped [or sleeping], when the steering, either the instrument of governance, is lost.

Ecclesiastes 10:17

Blessed is the land, whose king is noble; and whose princes eat in their time, to sustain their kind, and not to lechery.

Isaiah 5:22

Woe to you that be mighty to drink wine, and be strong to meddle [or mingle] drunkenness;

Habakkuk 2:5

And as wine deceiveth a man drinking, so shall the proud man be, and he shall not be made fair; for as hell he alarged his soul, and he is as death, and he is not [ful] filled; and he shall gather to him all folks, and he shall gather together to him all peoples.