Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is noisy; and whosoever indulgeth therein will never be wise.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Like the roaring of a young lion is the dread of a king: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

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Cross References

Genesis 9:21And he drank of the wine, and became drunken; and he uncovered himself 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 perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

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

1 Kings 20:16And they went out at midday; while Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.

Proverbs 23:29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath quarrels? who hath complaints? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

Proverbs 31:4Not for kings, O Lemoel, not for kings [it is fitting] to drink wine, nor for princes, strong drink:

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