Wine Is A Mocker And Beer A Brawler

Proverbs 19:27-20:1 – Stop listening to instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge. A corrupt witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down evil. Penalties are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools. Wine is a mocker and beer a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

Proverbs 31:4-5 – It is not for kings, Lemuel—it is not for kings to drink wine, not for rulers to crave beer, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed, and deprive all the oppressed of their rights.

Proverbs 23:20-21 – Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat, for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

Genesis 9:21 – When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.

Application:

• ·         Proverbs associates drunkenness with poverty, strife and injustice.
• ·         Woe to the land whose rulers are drunkards.
• ·         The first person to make wine drank to excess.
• ·         Excessive use of wine led, among other things, to immodest behavior.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV