20 Wine is a mocker,(A) beer is a brawler;
whoever goes astray[a] because of them is not wise.

A king’s terrible wrath is like the roaring of a lion;
anyone who provokes him endangers himself.(B)

Honor belongs to the person who ends a dispute,(C)
but any fool can get himself into a quarrel.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 20:1 Or whoever staggers

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