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Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
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Verse 1. A luxurious thing. Hebrew “a scoffer.” Chal. “renders one a scoffer.”—Drunkenness. Hebrew ssocor, any strong drink, particularly palm-wine. Intemperance places the strongest obstacles in the way of wisdom. It causes a person to mock at all sacred things, and to be quarrelsome. Calmet. 23:29. Ephesians 5:18.
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