Proverbios 23:30

30 Para los que se detienen junto al vino, para los que van buscando la mixtura

Proverbios 23:30 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 23:30

They that tarry long at the wine
At drinking it. Do not care to stir from it when at it; spend whole days and nights in it, and are overcome by it, and so bring upon them all the above evils; they that go to seek mixed wine,
not wine mixed with water, as used commonly by temperate people in hot countries; but either mixed with spices, to make it more palatable, or with different sorts of wine, some very strong, and more heady and intoxicating; or mere wine meant; wine "poured out", as the word ^F17 signifies, where there is plenty of it; and such as are given to wine go and seek out such places, and where the best is to be had. So the Targum,

``they go and seek the house of mixture, or mixed wine;''

or, as the Syriac version,

``the house of feasting;''

and so the Arabic:

``where there are junketing and drinking bouts,''

as the Septuagint.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 (Komm) "calicibus epotandi", V. L.

Proverbios 23:30 In-Context

28 También ella, como robador, acecha, y multiplica entre los hombres los prevaricadores

29 ¿Para quién será el ay? ¿Para quién el ay? ¿Para quién las rencillas? ¿Para quién las quejas? ¿Para quién las heridas en balde? ¿Para quién lo amoratado de los ojos

30 Para los que se detienen junto al vino, para los que van buscando la mixtura

31 No mires al vino cuando rojea, cuando resplandece su color en el vaso, se entra suavemente

32 mas al fin morderá como serpiente, y como basilisco dará dolor