Proverbs 31:5

World English Bible (2000)

lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.

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  • Hab 2:5 : 5 Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn't stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

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  • Prov 31:3-4
    2 verses
    84%

    3Don't give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

    4It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, 'Where is strong drink?'

  • Prov 31:6-9
    4 verses
    83%

    6Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul:

    7Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

    8Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

    9Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy."

  • Isa 5:22-23
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    22Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

    23who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

  • Prov 20:1
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    1Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

  • Isa 24:9
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    9They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

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

  • Isa 28:6-7
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    6and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

    7They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

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

  • Prov 23:30-31
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    30Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.

    31Don't look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

  • Prov 4:17
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    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • Hab 2:15
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    15"Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

  • Joel 1:5
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    5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • Hos 4:11
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    11Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

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

  • Esth 1:7-8
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    7They gave them drinks in golden vessels of various kinds, including royal wine in abundance, according to the bounty of the king.

    8In accordance with the law, the drinking was not compulsory; for so the king had instructed all the officials of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.

  • Prov 23:20-21
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    20Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

    21for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

  • Exod 23:6
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    6"You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

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

  • Isa 10:2
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    2to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

  • Job 12:25
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    25They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

  • Hos 7:5
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    5On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.

  • Isa 29:9
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    9Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

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

  • Ps 75:8
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    8For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.

  • Deut 16:19
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    19You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

  • Amos 6:6
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    6who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

  • Amos 2:8
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    8and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

  • Deut 24:17
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    17You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;

  • Jer 5:28
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    28They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.

  • 1 Thess 5:7
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    7For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

  • Deut 25:1
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    1If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;

  • Job 31:11
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    11For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

  • Deut 27:19
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    19'Cursed is he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Ezek 44:21
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    21Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

  • Job 24:11
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    11They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

  • Hab 2:5
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    5Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn't stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

  • Gen 44:5
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    5Isn't this that from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed divines? You have done evil in so doing.'"

  • Prov 28:4
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    4Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

  • Jer 13:13
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    13Then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.

  • Jer 25:16
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    16They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.