Proverbs 31:5
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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