[It is] not for the kings, O Lemuel; drinking wine [is] not for the kings, nor [is] strong drink for rulers.

[Like] cutting off feet [or] drinking violence, so [is] he who sends messages in the hand of a fool.

For they ate the bread of wickedness, and they drank the wine of violence.

"Come, eat with my bread; drink with the wine I have mixed.

Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and any who go astray by it are not wise.

Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those {in bitter distress}.