Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness riotous: whosoever is delighted therewith shell not be wise.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2As the roaring of a lion, so also is the dread of a king: he that provoketh him, sinneth against his own soul.

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Cross References

Genesis 9:21And drinking of the wine was made drunk, and was uncovered in his tent.

Genesis 19:33And they made their father drink wine that night: and the elder went in and lay with her father : but he perceived not neither when his daughter lay down, nor when she rose up.

2 Samuel 11:13And David called him to eat and to drink before him, and he made him drunk: and he went out in the evening, and slept on his couch with the servants of his lord, and went not down into his house.

1 Kings 20:16And they went out at noon. But Benadad was drinking himself drunk in his pavilion, and the two and thirty kings with him, who were come to help him.

Proverbs 23:29Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

Proverbs 31:4Give not to kings, O Lamuel, give not wine to kings: because there is no secret where drunkenness reigneth:

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