Proverbs 23:20
18 For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course.
Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.
21 For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.
- KJV
- Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
- WEB
- Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat;
- ASV
- Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:
- DARBY
- Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh.
- BLB
- Not Be among those getting drunk [on] wine, among those being gluttons of flesh to themelves.
- ÅB
- Vær ikke blant vindrikkere, blant dem som fråtser i kjøtt!
- OTB
- Vær ikke blant dem som drikker for mye vin eller fråtser i kjøtt,
- B1930
- Vær ikke blandt vindrikkere, blandt dem som fråtser i kjøtt!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Luke 21:34
But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
Read in contextEphesians 5:18
Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
Read in contextIsaiah 5:22
Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing beer,
Read in contextRomans 13:13
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
Read in contextIsaiah 5:11
Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.
Read in contextMatthew 24:49
And he begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.
Read in contextIsaiah 22:13
But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
Read in contextLuke 15:13
After a few days, the younger son got everything together and journeyed to a distant country, where he squandered his wealth in wild living.
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