1Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 20:1
The LORD Searches the Heart: Sobriety, Justice, Counsel, Speech, and Honest Measures
The chapter moves from appetite and conflict, to hidden purposes and integrity, to royal justice and human impurity, to work and speech, to surety, fraud, counsel, and gossip, to family honor, inheritance, vengeance, and dishonest scales, and finally to providence, vows, royal judgment, the LORD's searching lamp, and painful correction.
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Wineהַ֭יַּיןH3196Article | Noun - masculine singularis a mockerלֵ֣ץH3887Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singularstrong drinkשֵׁכָ֑רH7941Noun - masculine singularis a brawlerהֹמֶ֣הH1993Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singularand whoeverוְכָל־H3605Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular constructis led astrayשֹׁ֥גֶהH7686Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singularby themבּ֝֗וֹPreposition | third person masculine singularis notלֹ֣אH3808Adverb - Negative particlewiseיֶחְכָּֽם׃H2449Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular