Proverbs 31:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

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  • Eph 5:18 : 18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

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    87%

    4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes to crave strong drink.

    5Lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

    6Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those of heavy hearts.

  • Job 11:16
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    16Because you shall forget your misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

  • Hab 2:15
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    15Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, who puts the bottle to him, and makes him drunk also, that you may look on their nakedness!

  • Prov 21:17
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    17He who loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

  • Isa 51:21
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    21Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunk, but not with wine:

  • Isa 24:9
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    9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.

  • Eccl 5:20
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    20For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.

  • Eccl 9:7
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    7Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now accepts your works.

  • Prov 23:21
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    21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

  • 1 Tim 5:23
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    23No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities.

  • Joel 1:5
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    5Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • Hab 2:5
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    5Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither stays at home, who enlarges his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all people:

  • Prov 31:8
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    8Speak for those who cannot speak, in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

  • Lam 3:15
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    15He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.

  • Eccl 8:15
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    15So I commended joy, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry; for this will remain with him in his labor the days of his life, which God gives him under the sun.

  • Prov 20:1
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    1Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

  • Isa 5:22
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    22Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink:

  • Job 21:20
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    20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

  • Eccl 10:19
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    19A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes merry: but money answers all things.

  • Job 3:20
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    20Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;

  • Isa 24:7
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    7The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.

  • Isa 5:11
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    11Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who continue until night, till wine inflames them!

  • Isa 56:12
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    12Come, they say, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

  • Prov 23:30-31
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    30Those who linger long at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine.

    31Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it swirls smoothly.

  • Lam 3:19
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    19Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

  • Prov 9:5
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    5Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mixed.

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    27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and console myself:

  • Ps 104:15
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    15And wine that makes glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shine, and bread which strengthens man's heart.

  • Gen 40:23
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    23Yet the chief butler did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

  • Ps 107:27
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    27They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

  • Job 24:11
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    11They make oil within their walls and tread their winepresses, and still they thirst.

  • Job 34:7
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    7What man is like Job, who drinks up scorn like water?

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    17All his days he also eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

    18Behold, what I have seen: it is good and fitting for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life, which God gives him; for it is his portion.

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  • Isa 22:13
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    13And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.

  • Prov 22:27
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    27If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

  • Ps 110:7
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    7He will drink from the brook by the way; therefore he will lift up the head.

  • Prov 25:20
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    20Like one who takes away a garment in cold weather, and like vinegar on soda, is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

  • Eccl 2:3
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    6Who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the finest ointments: but are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

  • Deut 29:19
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    19And it comes to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

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    24There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy the good of his labor. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God.

  • Eccl 10:17
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    17Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

  • Job 36:16
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    16Even so would he have brought you out of distress into a broad place, where there is no tightness; and that which should be set on your table would be full of abundance.

  • Prov 3:10
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    10So your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.