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Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a scorner, strong drink is raging; and whoso erreth thereby is not wise.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

In Context

2The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: he that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

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Cross References

Genesis 9:21And he drank of the wine, and was drunken, and he uncovered himself in his tent.

Genesis 19:33And they gave their father wine to drink that night. And the first-born went in, and lay with her father, and he did not know of her lying down, nor of her rising.

2 Samuel 11:13And David invited him, and he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. And in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but did not go down to his house.

1 Kings 20:16And they went out at noon; and Ben-Hadad drank himself drunk in the tents, he and the kings, the thirty-two kings that helped him.

Proverbs 23:29Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who complaining? Who wounds without cause? Who redness of eyes?

Proverbs 31:4It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for rulers [to say], Where is the strong drink?

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