Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Wine is mocking, strong drink is noisy: and every one going astray by it will not be wise.
New American Standard Bible
And whoever
King James Version
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Holman Bible
and whoever staggers because of them is not wise.
International Standard Version
Wine causes mocking, and beer causes fights; everyone led astray by them lacks wisdom.
A Conservative Version
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever errs thereby is not wise.
American Standard Version
Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.
Amplified
And whoever is intoxicated by it is not wise.
Bible in Basic English
Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.
Darby Translation
Wine is a scorner, strong drink is raging; and whoso erreth thereby is not wise.
King James 2000
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and any who go astray by it are not wise.
Modern King James verseion
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whoever goes astray by it is not wise.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wine is a voluptuous thing, and drunkenness causes sedition; whoso delighteth therein, shall never be wise.
NET Bible
Wine is a mocker and strong drink is a brawler; whoever goes astray by them is not wise.
New Heart English Bible
Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
The Emphasized Bible
Wine is, a scoffer, and strong drink, a brawler, every one therefore who erreth therein, is unwise.
Webster
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived by it is not wise.
World English Bible
Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
Youngs Literal Translation
Wine is a scorner -- strong drink is noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.
Themes
Abomination » Things that are, to God » Unjust weights and measures
Drunkenness » Folly of yielding to
Topics
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 20:1
Prayers for Proverbs 20:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Foolproof Instructions
1 Wine is mocking, strong drink is noisy: and every one going astray by it will not be wise. 2 The terror of the king growling as the young lion: he overflowing against him sinned against his soul.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 31:4
Not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink and for princes the desire of strong drink:
Hosea 4:11
Fornication and wine and new wine will take away the heart.
Isaiah 28:7
And these also went astray by wine, and by strong drink they erred; the priest and the prophet went astray by strong drink, they were swallowed up from wine, they erred from strong drink, they went astray in seeing, they wavered in judgment.
2 Samuel 11:13
And David will call for him, and he will eat before him and drink; and he will make him drunk: and he will go forth in the evening to lie upon his bed with the servants of his lord; and he will not go down to his house.
1 Corinthians 6:10
Nor thieves; nor covetous, nor intoxicated, nor railers, nor rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:21
Envyings, slaughters, drunkenness, revelries, and the like: to these which I foretell you, as I have also said before, that they doing such shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Ephesians 5:18
And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit;
Genesis 9:21-23
And he will drink of the wine and he will be intoxicated, and will be uncovered within his tent
Genesis 19:31-36
And the first-born will say to the small, our father has become old, and not a man in the earth to come in to us according to the way of all the earth:
1 Samuel 25:36-38
And Abigail will go to Nabal; and behold, to him a drinking in his house as the drinking of a king; and Nabal's heart good with him, and he was intoxicated even greatly; and she announced not to him a word small and great till the light of the morning.
2 Samuel 13:28
And Absalom will command his boys, saying, See now, when the heart of Amnon is good with wine, and I said to you, Strike Amnon; and kill him; ye shall not be afraid, for I commanded you: be strong and be for sons of strength.
1 Kings 20:16-21
And they will go forth at noon. And Ben-hadad was drinking strong drink in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings helping him.
Proverbs 23:29-35
To whom wo? to whom want? to whom strife? to whom complaint? to whom wounds gratuitously? to whom dark fleshings of the eyes?
Isaiah 5:22
Wo to the strong to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink:
Isaiah 56:12
Come ye, I will take wine, and we will drink strong drink to excess; and the morrow being as this day, the remainder great exceedingly.
Hosea 7:5
The day of our king the chiefs began anger from wine; stretching forth his hand with mockers.
Habakkuk 2:15-16
Wo! to him giving his neighbor drink, pouring out thy leathern bottle, and also to be drunken so as to look upon their nakedness.