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Proverbs 20:1 (Listen)

• Proverbs 19
• Proverbs 20
• Proverbs 21

20 yWine is a mocker, zstrong drink a brawler,

and whoever ais led astray by it is not wise.1

Proverbs 23:19-21 (Listen)

• Proverbs 22
• Proverbs 23
• Proverbs 24

19 Hear, my son, and xbe wise,

and ydirect your heart in the way.

20 Be not among zdrunkards1

or among agluttonous eaters of meat,

21 for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,

and bslumber will clothe them with rags.

Proverbs 23:29-35 (Listen)

• Proverbs 22
• Proverbs 23
• Proverbs 24

29 lWho has woe? Who has sorrow?

Who has strife? Who has complaining?

Who has mwounds without cause?

Who has nredness of eyes?

30 Those who otarry long over wine;

those who go to try pmixed wine.

31 Do not look at wine when it is red,

when it sparkles in the cup

and goes down smoothly.

32 In the end it qbites like a serpent

and stings like an adder.

33 Your eyes will see strange things,

and your heart utter rperverse things.

34 You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea,

like one who lies on the top of a mast.1

35 “They sstruck me,” you will say,2 “but I was not hurt;

they beat me, but I did not feel it.

When shall I awake?

I tmust have another drink.”