Proverbs 31:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Not for kings, O Lemuel, Not for kings, to drink wine, And for princes a desire of strong drink.

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  • Eccl 10:17 : 17 Happy art thou, O land, When thy king `is' a son of freemen, And thy princes do eat in due season, For might, and not for drunkenness.
  • Prov 20:1 : 1 Wine `is' a scorner -- strong drink `is' noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.
  • Isa 5:22 : 22 Wo `to' the mighty to drink wine, And men of strength to mingle strong drink.
  • Isa 28:7-8 : 7 And even these through wine have erred, And through strong drink have wandered, Priest and prophet erred through strong drink, They have been swallowed up of the wine, They wandered because of the strong drink, They have erred in seeing, They have stumbled judicially. 8 For all tables have been full of vomit, Filth -- without place!
  • Lev 10:9-9 : 9 `Wine and strong drink thou dost not drink, thou, and thy sons with thee, in your going in unto the tent of meeting, and ye die not -- a statute age-during to your generations; 10 so as to make a separation between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the pure;
  • Hos 4:11-12 : 11 Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart, 12 My people at its staff asketh and its rod declareth to it, For a spirit of whoredoms hath caused to err, And they go a-whoring from under their God.
  • Hab 2:5 : 5 And also, because the wine `is' treacherous, A man is haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto itself all the peoples,
  • Mark 6:21-28 : 21 And a seasonable day having come, when Herod on his birthday was making a supper to his great men, and to the chiefs of thousands, and to the first men of Galilee, 22 and the daughter of that Herodias having come in, and having danced, and having pleased Herod and those reclining (at meat) with him, the king said to the damsel, `Ask of me whatever thou wilt, and I will give to thee,' 23 and he sware to her -- `Whatever thou mayest ask me, I will give to thee -- unto the half of my kingdom.' 24 And she, having gone forth, said to her mother, `What shall I ask for myself?' and she said, `The head of John the Baptist;' 25 and having come in immediately with haste unto the king, she asked, saying, `I will that thou mayest give me presently, upon a plate, the head of John the Baptist.' 26 And the king -- made very sorrowful -- because of the oaths and of those reclining (at meat) with him, would not put her away, 27 and immediately the king having sent a guardsman, did command his head to be brought, 28 and he having gone, beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head upon a plate, and did give it to the damsel, and the damsel did give it to her mother;
  • Hos 7:3-5 : 3 With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes. 4 All of them `are' adulterers, Like a burning oven of a baker, He ceaseth from stirring up after kneading the dough, till its leavening. 5 A day of our king! Princes have polluted themselves `with' the poison of wine, He hath drawn out his hand with scorners.
  • 1 Kgs 20:12 : 12 And it cometh to pass at the hearing of this word -- and he is drinking, he and the kings, in the booths -- that he saith unto his servants, `Set yourselves;' and they set themselves against the city.
  • 1 Kgs 20:16-20 : 16 and they go out at noon, and Ben-Hadad is drinking -- drunk in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings, helping him. 17 And the young men of the heads of the provinces go out at the first, and Ben-Hadad sendeth, and they declare to him, saying, `Men have come out of Samaria.' 18 And he saith, `If for peace they have come out -- catch them alive; and if for battle they have come out -- alive catch them.' 19 And these have gone out of the city -- the young men of the heads of the provinces -- and the force that `is' after them, 20 and smite each his man, and Aram fleeth, and Israel pursueth them, and Ben-Hadad king of Aram escapeth on a horse, and the horsemen;
  • Esth 3:15 : 15 The runners have gone forth, hastened by the word of the king, and the law hath been given in Shushan the palace, and the king and Haman have sat down to drink, and the city Shushan is perplexed.
  • Dan 5:2-4 : 2 Belshazzar hath said -- while tasting the wine -- to bring in the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple that `is' in Jerusalem, that drink with them may the king, and his great men, his wives, and his concubines. 3 Then they have brought in the vessels of gold that had been taken out of the temple of the house of God that `is' in Jerusalem, and drunk with them have the king and his great men, his wives and his concubines; 4 they have drunk wine, and have praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

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  • Eccl 10:16-17
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    16Wo to thee, O land, when thy king `is' a youth, And thy princes do eat in the morning.

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    17For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.

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    15Wo `to' him who is giving drink to his neighbour, Pouring out thy bottle, and also making drunk, In order to look on their nakedness.

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    21And no priest doth drink wine in their coming in unto the inner court.

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    7Not comely for a fool is a lip of excellency, Much less for a noble a lip of falsehood.

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    12An abomination to kings `is' doing wickedness, For by righteousness is a throne established.

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    4they have drunk wine, and have praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

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    18Who hath said to a king -- `Worthless,' Unto princes -- `Wicked?'