Proverbs 20:1
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is riotous; and whosoever reeleth thereby is not wise.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 9:21And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Genesis 19:33And they made their father drink wine that night. And the first-born went in, and lay with her father; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
2 Samuel 11:13And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk; and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.
1 Kings 20:16And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.
Proverbs 23:29Who crieth: 'Woe'? who: 'Alas'? who hath contentions? who hath raving? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
Proverbs 31:4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine: nor for princes to say: 'Where is strong drink?'