Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived by it is not wise.

Webster Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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

Read all of Proverbs 20

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 perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

2 Samuel 11:13And when David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk: and at evening 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 pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.

Proverbs 23:29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? 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 strong drink:

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Proverbs 20:1