Proverbs 20:1

Wine is an intemperate thing, and strong drink full of violence: 1 But every fool is entangled with them. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2The threat of a king differs not from the rage of a lion; 1 And he that provokes him sins against his own soul. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 9:21And he drank of the wine, and was drunk, and was naked in his house.

Genesis 19:33So they made their father drink wine in that night, and the elder went in and lay with her father that night, and he knew not when he slept and when he rose up.

2 Samuel 11:13And David called him, and he ate before him and drank, and he made him drunk: and he went out in the evening to lie upon his bed with the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

1 Kings 20:16And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth the Jezreelite was dead, that he rent his garments, and put on sackcloth. And it came to pass afterward, that Ahab arose and went down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

Proverbs 23:29Who has woe? who trouble? who has quarrels? 1 And who vexations and disputes? 1 Who has bruises without a cause? 1 Whose eyes are livid? 1

Proverbs 31:4Princes are prone to anger: let them then not drink wine:

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