Proverbs 31:5
For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.
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- Hab 2:5 : 5 A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.
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23 Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.
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16 And after drinking it, they will go rolling from side to side, and be off their heads, because of the sword which I will send among them.