Proverbs 23:30

30 It is people who drink too much wine, who try out all different kinds of strong drinks.

Proverbs 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.
FOOTNOTES:

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

Proverbs 23:30 In-Context

28 They ambush you like robbers and cause many men to be unfaithful to their wives.
29 Who has trouble? Who has pain? Who has unnecessary bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
30 It is people who drink too much wine, who try out all different kinds of strong drinks.
31 Don't stare at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
32 Later it bites like a snake with poison in its fangs.
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