Ben Sira 31:27

27 Wine is as good as life to a man, if it be drunk moderately. What life is then to a man that is without wine? For it was made to make men glad.

Ben Sira 31:27 In-Context

25 Show not thy valiantness in wine, for wine hath destroyed many.

26 The furnace testeth the edge by dipping; so doth wine the hearts of the proud by drunkenness.

27 Wine is as good as life to a man, if it be drunk moderately. What life is then to a man that is without wine? For it was made to make men glad.

28 Wine measurably drunk and in season bringeth gladness of the heart and cheerfulness of the mind,

29 but wine drunken with excess maketh bitterness of the mind with brawling and quarreling.