Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler;\par\tab And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.
Hosea 4:11 - American Standard Version 2015 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Harlotry and wine and new wine take away the heart and the mind and the spiritual understanding. American Standard Version (1901) Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding. Common English Bible false religious practices. Wine and new wine destroy understanding. Catholic Public Domain Version Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness, have taken away their heart. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness take away the understanding. |
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler;\par\tab And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine;\par\tab Nor for princes {\i to say}, Where is strong drink?
He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding:\par\tab He doeth it who would destroy his own soul.
Surely extortion maketh the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroyeth the understanding.\par
And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
And the harp and the lute, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are {\i in} their feasts; but they regard not the work of Jehovah, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.\par
And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredom hath caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, {\i departing} from under their God.
Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God; for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not Jehovah.
And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding: they call unto Egypt, they go to Assyria.
Drink no wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, that ye die not: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:
And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.