Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
Proverbs 23:20 - English Standard Version 2016 Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 Be not among winebibbers; Among riotous eaters of flesh: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Do not associate with winebibbers; be not among them nor among gluttonous eaters of meat, [Isa. 5:22; Luke 21:34; Rom. 13:13; Eph. 5:18.] American Standard Version (1901) Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh: Common English Bible Don’t hang out with those who get drunk on wine or those who eat too much meat, Catholic Public Domain Version Do not be willing to be in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in the carousings of those who gather to feed on flesh. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat: |
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.
The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.
and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening as wine inflames them!
Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink,
Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.
“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
“But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.
Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’