1 Wine 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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Wine הַ֭יַּין H3196 Article | Noun - masculine singular is a mocker לֵ֣ץ H3887 Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular strong drink שֵׁכָ֑ר H7941 Noun - masculine singular is a brawler הֹמֶ֣ה H1993 Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular and whoever וְכָל־ H3605 Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct is led astray שֹׁ֥גֶה H7686 Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular by them בּ֝֗וֹ Preposition | third person masculine singular is not לֹ֣א H3808 Adverb - Negative particle wise יֶחְכָּֽם׃ H2449 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular