29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes? 30 Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks. 31 Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.
Proverbs 23:29–31
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Isaiah 5:21–23
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight. 22 Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing beer, 23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
Isaiah 5:10–12
10 For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.” 11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine. 12 At their feasts are the lyre and ha…
Proverbs 23:19–21
19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course. 20 Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat. 21 For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
Proverbs 20:1–2
1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise. 2 The terror of a king is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him forfeits his own life.
Sirach 31:24–26
24 The city will murmur at him who is a stingy with his food. The testimony of his stinginess will be accurate. (WEB) 25 Don’t show yourself valiant in wine, for wine has destroyed many. (WEB) 26 The furnace tests the temper of steel by dipping; so does wine test hearts in the quar… (WEB)
Sirach 31:28–30
28 Wine drunk in season and in moderation is joy of heart and gladness of soul: (WEB) 29 Wine drunk excessively is bitterness of soul, with provocation and conflict. (WEB) 30 Drunkenness increases the rage of a fool to his hurt. It diminishes strength and adds wounds. (WEB)
Testament of Judah 3:24–26
24 Observe, therefore, my children, the right limit in wine; for there are in it four evil spirits--of lust, of hot desire, of profligacy, of filthy lucre. (T12) 25 If ye drink wine in gladness, be ye modest in the fear of God. (T12) 26 For if in your gladness the fear of God depar… (T12)
Isaiah 29:8–10
8 as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion. 9 Stop and be astonished; blind yourselv…
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