Proverbs 31:7

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Eph 5:18 : 18 Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

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  • Prov 31:4-6
    3 verses
    87%

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

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

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

  • Job 11:16
    76%

    16 for you shall forget your misery. You shall remember it as waters that are passed away.

  • 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!

  • Prov 21:17
    72%

    17 He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.

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

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

  • Eccl 5:20
    71%

    20 For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.

  • Eccl 9:7
    71%

    7 Go your way--eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

  • Prov 23:21
    70%

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

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

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

  • Hab 2:5
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    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.

  • Prov 31:8
    69%

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

  • Lam 3:15
    69%

    15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.

  • Eccl 8:15
    69%

    15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

  • Prov 20:1
    69%

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

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

  • Job 21:20
    69%

    20 Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

  • Eccl 10:19
    69%

    19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.

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

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

  • Isa 5:11
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    11 Woe 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!

  • Isa 56:12
    69%

    12 "Come," [say they], "I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure."

  • Prov 23:30-31
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    69%

    30 Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.

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

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

  • Prov 9:5
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    5 "Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!

  • Job 9:27
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    27 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'

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

  • Gen 40:23
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    23 Yet the chief cupbearer didn't remember Joseph, but forgot him.

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

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

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

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

  • Eccl 5:17-18
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    67%

    17 All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

    18 Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

  • Lam 3:17
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    17 You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.

  • Isa 22:13
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    13 and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die."

  • Prov 22:27
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    27 If you don't have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

  • Ps 110:7
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    7 He will drink of the brook in the way; therefore he will lift up his head.

  • Prov 25:20
    67%

    20 As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

  • Eccl 2:3
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    3 I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

  • Amos 6:6
    67%

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

  • Deut 29:19
    67%

    19 and it happen, 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 stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry."

  • Eccl 2:24
    67%

    24 There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

  • Eccl 10:17
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    17 Happy are you, 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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    16 Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

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