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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6Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:
7Let him have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.
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22Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!
23Who 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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30Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.
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17The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.
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5Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.
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7And they gave them drink in gold vessels, every vessel being different, and wine of the kingdom, freely given by the king.
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20Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:
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6Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.
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23Do not take only water as your drink, but take a little wine for the good of your stomach, and because you are frequently ill.
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25They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.
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17Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:
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7For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;
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16And 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.